Principal Mission Software Engineer - MMS & Real-Time

Front Door Defense; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Stock options

401(k) retirement plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

Hermeus is seeking a Senior/Principal Mission Software Engineer in Atlanta to design and implement the Mission Management System for high-speed aircraft. You will develop C++ software, interfaces with subsystems, and work with avionics and network engineers to enable rapid capability delivery.

The role emphasizes distributed, hardware-connected environments, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop validation, with a focus on safety-critical integration in evolving requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of professional C++ development experience delivering production-quality software.
• Proficiency with modern C++ (C++14/17/20), including concurrency, memory management, and performance-oriented programming.
• Experience with network programming concepts such as TCP, UDP, and multicast at the socket interface level.
• Experience integrating software with hardware systems or external services in environments with evolving requirements.
• Ability to define interfaces, protocols, and system boundaries where none exist.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain C++ software components that extend and evolve the Mission Management System platform.
• Integrate third-party mission subsystems, autonomy solutions, and communications services by defining new interfaces, data models, and messaging pathways.
• Work with systems, avionics, and network engineers to establish interfaces, data schemas, and protocols across mission systems.
• Develop software requirements, architecture artifacts, and integration documentation as the system and platform mature.
• Implement mission workflows, operator interaction logic, and data transformation services supporting command, control, and telemetry.
• Participate in code reviews, integration builds, simulations, and system-level validation activities.
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve software and integration issues in distributed, hardware-connected environments.
• Contribute to simulation and hardware-in-the-loop environments for capability validation.

Skills

C++ development

Concurrency

Networking (TCP/UDP)

Interface design

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related field

Tools

DDS

ZeroMQ

ActiveMQ

Kafka

Job description

Hermeus is seeking a Senior/Principal Mission Software Engineer in Atlanta to design and implement the Mission Management System for high-speed aircraft. You will develop C++ software, interfaces with subsystems, and work with avionics and network engineers to enable rapid capability delivery.

The role emphasizes distributed, hardware-connected environments, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop validation, with a focus on safety-critical integration in evolving requirements.