Senior Build Reliability Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Hermeus is a venture-backed defense aviation company reclaiming the lost art of rapid iterative prototyping to build the fastest aircraft in the world today. By prioritizing relentless hardware iteration, we deliver high-speed systems at the pace of the modern battlefield. We work with the Department of War to provide the high-speed capabilities our nation and its allies need to maintain a durable, asymmetric advantage.

🏢 About Hermeus

The Quality & Reliability Team at Hermeus are truly embedded, supporting the full vehicle lifecycle of the aircraft we design, build, and fly. Build Reliability Engineers (BREs) are committed to the reliability of flight components and the manufactured processes executed within production. Build Reliability Engineers at Hermeus will guide the hardware from design to manufacturing and flight operation. They will use data to understand the factors that drive reliability and support quality initiatives with design and development teams to drive improvements in manufacturing, test, and flight reliability. Additionally, they will dive deep into the details to identify, understand, and solve difficult technical problems and utilize a system-level approach to deliver root cause corrective action.

🎯 The Role

Build Reliability Engineers (BREs) are committed to the reliability of flight components and the manufactured processes executed within production. They will guide the hardware from design to manufacturing and flight operation, using data to understand reliability factors and supporting quality initiatives with design and development teams.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Partner with design engineering and manufacturing teams through vehicle development to create quality plans for hardware, including identification of key characteristics, prototype testing for functionality, and manufacturability, defining first article inspection requirements, and consideration of past failures and lessons learned
• Define methods for inspection of components to internal and industry standards to determine part conformity
• Investigate failures in manufacturing, test, and flight, identifying and mitigating the immediate and underlying root causes in order to reduce risk and improve the reliability of designs and processes
• Determine and document appropriate Quality Management System requirements around traceability, non-conformance, and configuration management for the program and work with IT/QMS software teams to build and test the applications to enforce said requirements
• Support the Quality Management System policies and procedure documentation and participate in continual improvement and lean manufacturing initiatives
• Own and manage the “containment” process.

🎁 Benefits

Competitive

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

We work with the Department of War, which may require specific eligibility or security clearances.