Senior Mission Software Architect for High-Speed Flight

Clutch Canada; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

Stock options & 401(k)

Parental leave

Office lunches

Job summary

Hermeus is seeking a Senior/Principal Mission Software Engineer to architect, build, integrate, and validate the Mission Management System across aircraft and ground systems. The role spans software, avionics, autonomy, simulation, and flight operations to solve complex problems in distributed, hardware-connected environments.

You will lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and influence how mission capabilities are commanded, monitored, tested, and expanded in a fast-paced, startup-like

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of professional software-development experience for Senior-level consideration.
• 10+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent leadership for Principal-level consideration.
• Advanced proficiency with modern C++, including C++17 or newer.
• Experience designing and delivering complex, production-quality software systems.
• Strong knowledge of concurrency, memory management, software architecture, and performance-oriented development.
• Experience with distributed, real-time, embedded, robotic, aerospace, or other hardware-connected systems.
• Experience with TCP, UDP, multicast, and socket-level network programming.

Responsibilities

• Own major Mission Management System capabilities from architecture through integration, testing, and operational use.
• Design and develop high-performance C++ software for command and control, telemetry, mission workflows, and subsystem coordination.
• Define scalable architectures, interfaces, APIs, protocols, and message schemas.
• Integrate autonomy services, sensors, payloads, radios, tactical datalinks, and third-party systems.
• Make technical decisions involving performance, reliability, latency, fault tolerance, and extensibility.
• Diagnose complex issues across distributed software, networks, embedded hardware, avionics, and communications systems.
• Partner with systems, avionics, autonomy, networking, flight-test, and operations teams.
• Build and improve simulation, software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, and system-integration environments.
• Lead design reviews, code reviews, technical trade studies, and integration activities.
• Identify technical risks and drive solutions in evolving requirements.
• Mentor engineers and establish strong software architecture and development practices.
• Support ground and flight-test campaigns, including real-time troubleshooting.

Skills

Modern C++ (C++17+)

Distributed real-time systems

Debugging complex systems

Cross-team communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS / CE / EE / SE

Tools

DDS

ZeroMQ

ActiveMQ

Kafka

Job description

Hermeus is seeking a Senior/Principal Mission Software Engineer to architect, build, integrate, and validate the Mission Management System across aircraft and ground systems. The role spans software, avionics, autonomy, simulation, and flight operations to solve complex problems in distributed, hardware-connected environments.

You will lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and influence how mission capabilities are commanded, monitored, tested, and expanded in a fast-paced, startup-like