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Mid LevelFull-time
Salary Range
$91,800 - $187,450 /year
About the Role
Hermeus is seeking a Spike Inlet Mechanism Build Engineer to join our team focused on high-speed aircraft development. This role involves building, integrating, and testing supersonic spike inlet mechanisms and mechanical subsystems, bridging design, manufacturing, and test processes.
Key Responsibilities
- →Support mechanism design reviews by providing feedback on manufacturability, integration constraints, and build efficiency
- →Develop and validate novel welded joints and welding processes to enable mechanism development
- →Create detailed build and test plans along with work instructions
- →Develop tooling fixtures and test setups required for mechanism assembly and test
- →Lead the build, test, and integration of complex aerospace mechanisms
- →Push hardware builds on the manufacturing floor, addressing issues in real time
- →Maintain configuration control of mechanism hardware, including documentation, BOMs, and build records
- →Support ground and flight test campaigns
- →Collaborate with cross-functional teams including structures, propulsion, avionics, and manufacturing
Requirements
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related engineering discipline
- ✓Experience building, assembling, welding, and integrating mechanical or aerospace hardware
- ✓Demonstrated hands-on experience working with mechanical assemblies, tools, and fabrication processes
- ✓Experience with CAD software such as NX, SolidWorks, or similar
- ✓Familiarity with GD&T and mechanical tolerance analysis
Preferred Skills and Qualifications
- ✓Experience with aerospace mechanisms or mechanical subsystems such as actuators, valves, deployable structures, or fluid system hardware
- ✓Experience supporting hardware development programs in aerospace, automotive, or other high-performance engineering industries
- ✓Knowledge of kinematics, structural mechanics, and fatigue considerations in mechanical systems
- ✓Experience developing assembly procedures, integration plans, or manufacturing documentation
- ✓Experience designing or implementing tooling, fixtures, or test equipment
- ✓Familiarity with test instrumentation, data acquisition systems, or mechanism validation testing
- ✓Experience working in prototype or early-stage hardware development environment
- ✓Experience designing and/or fabricating welded structures
- ✓Familiarity with laser welding and heat treatment of welded structures
- ✓Experience with NX and Manufacturo.
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