Propulsion Test Engineer

The Opportunity and How You'll Impact Hermeus

• Responsible for the development, maintenance, and operations of test hardware (including facilities and test rigs)
• Work closely with other engineers and technicians over a wide range of disciplines
• Inform the growth and capabilities of the company

About You / Valued Experience

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in aerospace or mechanical engineering
• Professional experience designing fixed or rotary wing aircraft, and air breathing propulsion systems
• Responsible for hardware that was taken from concept to test
• Experience sizing and managing vendors to procure components and instrumentation
• Demonstrate mastery of engineering fundamentals, particularly in the areas of combustion, thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, structural dynamics, material science, aerodynamics, and stability and control
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment in a scrappy and cost-effective manner
• Maintain a positive attitude when encounter challenging problems
• Willing to travel to support ground and flight test campaigns

Desired Multipliers

• Professional experience designing fixed or rotary wing aircraft, and air breathing propulsion systems, using CAD and GD&T 
• Professional experience building test rigs or facilities including air-breathing propulsion systems 
• Professional experience leading test campaigns for fixed wing, rotary aircraft and air-breathing combustors, augmentors, ignition systems, variable area nozzles, or turbomachinery 
• Professional experience leading failure root cause investigations 
• Professional experience with Siemens Teamcenter and NX 
• Experience with jet hydrocarbon fuels 
• Experience with the generation of work instructions and quality control associated with nonconformances 
• Experience in data and control systems (including instrumentation) and usage for ground and flight testing 
• Hands-on experience machining, welding, or integrating hardware (aerospace or other industry) 
• Experience certifying test hardware to be used to certify flight hardware