Hermeus · 1 hour ago
Product Manager - Ground Segment
Atlanta, GA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expHermeus is a high-speed aircraft manufacturer focused on the rapid design, build, and test of high-Mach and hypersonic aircraft for the national interest. The Product Manager - Ground Segment is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and shaping ground segment capabilities across Hermeus aircraft programs, ensuring that these systems effectively support simulation, test, and flight operations.
AerospaceAir TransportationInfrastructureTravel
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Ground segment product definition and strategy: Define ground segment product capabilities spanning mission planning, command and control, telemetry ingestion, operator interfaces, data logging, playback, and debrief; translate operational needs, flight-test objectives, and customer requirements into prioritized capability increments with clear acceptance criteria; and maintain the ground segment product roadmap aligned with program milestones and flight events
Operator experience and workflow definition: Define operator-facing workflows for mission planning, execution, monitoring, contingency management, and debrief, ensuring ground segment capabilities support intuitive, deterministic, and auditable interactions while clearly representing operator actions, autonomy commands, and vehicle state to users
Integration intent and interfaces of interest: Define integration intent and interface expectations between ground systems, airborne systems, autonomy services, simulation environments, and debrief tools, ensuring capability definitions account for OMS, UCI, ICDs, APIs, schemas, message contracts, versioning expectations, and integration risks while driving cross-team alignment
Mission data lifecycle and evidence support: Define product expectations for the mission data lifecycle from onboard logging through ground ingestion, synchronization, storage, playback, and analysis, establishing requirements for time alignment, metadata tagging, event annotation, and evidence capture to support verification, validation, regression testing, and post-flight analysis
Simulation, HITL, and flight enablement: Define how ground segment capabilities are exercised across SITL, HITL, Joint Simulation Environment (JSE), and live flight environments, ensuring consistency of workflows, telemetry expectations, and mission phase transitions while partnering with test teams to enable deterministic testing and rapid issue isolation
Cross-domain and secure data workflows: Define product requirements for cross-domain mission data packaging, sanitization, transfer, and storage, establishing expectations for metadata, integrity checks, and evidence handling while ensuring ground segment capabilities account for security, export-control, and data-handling constraints
Readiness, verification, and delivery support: Define ground segment acceptance criteria and readiness expectations for flight events and demonstrations, support readiness discussions and milestone reviews by representing scope, maturity, and limitations, and ensure deliverables are traceable, review-ready, and aligned with program and customer needs
Customer and stakeholder engagement: Support government and partner engagements related to ground segment capabilities, operator workflows, and mission data products, and help shape deliverables, demonstrations, and transition artifacts for external stakeholders
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
10+ years of experience delivering mission systems, ground control software, operator interfaces, telemetry systems, or distributed data platforms
Demonstrated experience defining and delivering complex, operator-facing system capabilities
Strong familiarity with OMS, UCI, ICD-driven development, and service-based mission architectures
Understanding of mission data pipelines, time synchronization, logging, playback, and analysis workflows
Experience working with Cameo Systems Modeler, SysML, and building MBSE models
Experience working across simulation, HITL, and flight-test environments
Strong cross-functional communication skills with engineers, operators, and program leadership
Active Secret clearance required; TS/SCI preferred
Preferred
Experience supporting unmanned or high-speed aircraft ground operations
Familiarity with cross-domain data workflows, sanitization processes, and classified mission environments
Experience integrating or coordinating third-party mission software or analytics tools
Background supporting DoD flight test, demonstrations, or transition programs
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity
Unlimited PTO policy
Paid parental leave
Potential for year-end bonuses
100% employer-paid health care
401k & Retirement Plans
Unlimited PTO
Weekly Paid Office Lunches
Fully stocked breakrooms
Stock Options
Paid Parental Leave
Company
Hermeus
Hermeus is developing Mach 5 aircraft to speed up the global transportation network.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$215.96MKey Investors
Sam AltmanUnited States Air ForceNASA
2025-07-30Series B
2024-07-02Series B· $39.96M
2022-03-10Series B· $100M
Leadership Team
AJ Piplica
Founder, Chief Executive Officer
Glenn Case
Founder & Chief Technologist
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