Senior Mission Systems Software Engineer - Real-Time C++

Hermeus Corporation; Atlanta (GA); Híbrido; USD 128.000 - 157.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health & Wellness

Stock options

401(k) retirement plan

Bonus programs

Paid parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Office lunches

Descripción de la vacante

Hermeus Corporation is seeking a Senior/Principal Mission Software Engineer to architect, build, integrate, and validate core Mission Management System capabilities across flight and ground systems. You will work across software, avionics, autonomy, and simulation to solve complex problems in distributed, hardware-connected environments.

This hands-on technical leadership role requires defining foundational architectures and guiding design reviews, while mentoring engineers and driving robust,

Formación

• 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 technical leadership and impact, 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.
• Ability to define architectures, interfaces, protocols, and system boundaries in ambiguous environments.
• Experience integrating software with hardware, external services, or independently developed subsystems.
• Strong debugging skills across software, networking, and hardware interfaces.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical decisions, risks, and tradeoffs across multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated ownership through design, implementation, integration, testing, and deployment.

Responsabilidades

• 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 environments.
• Mentor engineers and establish strong software architecture and development practices.
• Support ground and flight-test campaigns, including real-time troubleshooting.

Conocimientos

C++ (modern, C++17+)

Distributed systems

Leadership / mentoring

Architecture / design

Real-time / embedded

TCP/UDP networking

Debugging across HW/SW

Cross-functional communication

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/EE/Software Eng

Herramientas

Linux

DDS/ZeroMQ/ActiveMQ/Kafka

Git / CI

Descripción del empleo

Hermeus Corporation is seeking a Senior/Principal Mission Software Engineer to architect, build, integrate, and validate core Mission Management System capabilities across flight and ground systems. You will work across software, avionics, autonomy, and simulation to solve complex problems in distributed, hardware-connected environments.

This hands-on technical leadership role requires defining foundational architectures and guiding design reviews, while mentoring engineers and driving robust,