Senior Welding Engineer

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 The Role: We are open to Senior or Principal leveling for this role. This position will support manufacturing and development of Hermeus vehicles and will help stand up welding processes, develop, qualify, and optimize welding designs and processes including but not limited to laser beam welding, gas tungsten arc welding, resistance welding, gas metal arc welding, and plasma arc welding. The welding engineer in this role will interface daily with design and manufacturing engineers to make welding judgment calls and improvements and will enforce standardized practices and procedures on multiple welded assemblies.

Support weld shop development to support full scale welded assemblies

Develop, optimize, and qualify weld processes and parameters for multiple welding processes including but not limited to laser beam welding, gas tungsten arc welding, resistance welding, gas metal arc welding, and plasma arc welding

Support design, manufacturing, and materials engineering with root cause analysis

Work closely with design, tooling, automation, and development engineers to improve welded designs for manufacturing

Set up welding qualification test campaigns and interpret mechanical testing and NDE results

Support manufacturing engineers and welders on correct techniques in a fast paced manufacturing environment

Develop and implement improved process control where possible using test and NDE results as feedback loop

Scope out new welding technologies that may be employed to improve rate/quality/efficiency

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline

Hands-on fabrication, manufacturing, or testing experience of welded assemblies

Master’s degree in welding engineering or related technical program

Hands on welding experience of stainless steel, nickel-based, titanium, copper, and aluminum alloys

Experience with brazing, joining, and metallographic interpretation

Fundamental understanding of welding processes including, but not limited to laser beam, plasma arc, gas tungsten arc, and gas metal arc

Tooling design experience for welded assemblies to reduce part distortion and improve part consistency

Understanding of weld strength testing methodologies, standards, and data acquisition systems used to make informed welding decisions (ASTM E8, E399, E740, ISO 15653, AWS D17.X, AWS C7.X, thermos-couples, strain gages, etc.)

Experience with root cause analysis and corrective actions including, but not limited to, optical and SEM fractography/metallography, hardness, chemical analysis, and mechanical testing

Self-motivated engineer with keen attention to detail

Must be willing to work long hours and weekends as needed to support and maintain build schedules

Ability to perform job duties that require standing, kneeling, crouching, twisting upper body, working in cramped positions in small openings and climbing hand over hand

Strong ability to multi-task and communicate status and results with broad spectrum of internal and external departments

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