Product Manager - Autonomy

Product Manager - Autonomy

Hermeus is a high-speed aircraft manufacturer focused on the rapid design, build, and test of high-Mach and hypersonic aircraft for the national interest. Working directly with the Department of Defense, Hermeus delivers capabilities that will ensure that our nation, and our allies, maintain an asymmetric advantage over any and all potential adversaries.

The Product Manager - Autonomy is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and shaping autonomy capabilities across aircraft, mission systems, ground control, and simulation environments. This role sits at the intersection of operational needs, program objectives, and system integration, translating mission intent into clear autonomy product capabilities that can be developed, tested, demonstrated, and evolved across programs and increments.

This position owns the autonomy product from a capability and outcome perspective, including capability decomposition, interface expectations, autonomy / VMS interaction intent, OMS / UCI alignment priorities, integration sequencing, and roadmap evolution. The role ensures autonomy development remains focused on delivering operational value and mission-relevant behavior across simulation, test, and flight.

The role partners closely with Product, Advanced Development, Autonomy Engineering, VMS, Flight Test, and external partners to ensure autonomy capabilities are coherent, demonstrable, and aligned with customer and program expectations.

Responsibilities :

• Autonomy product definition and strategy : Define autonomy product capabilities spanning mission planning, execution, contingency management, operator interaction, vehicle coordination, and post-mission debrief; translate operational needs, CONOPs, and program objectives into prioritized autonomy capability increments with clear acceptance criteria; and maintain the autonomy roadmap balancing near-term demonstration needs with long-term scalability and reuse.
• Capability decomposition and integration intent : Define autonomy capability boundaries, dependencies, and integration intent across aircraft systems, mission systems, ground control, and simulation environments; frame integration expectations aligned to program milestones and flight-test objectives; and identify capability gaps, overlaps, and dependencies while driving cross-team alignment.
• Interfaces, standards, and alignment : Define autonomy-related interface expectations and data-flow requirements aligned with OMS, UCI, ICDs, and API-based integration patterns, ensuring capability definitions account for interface versioning, compatibility, configuration dependencies, and consistency across simulation, HITL, and flight environments.
• Translation of operational needs into product requirements : Convert operational concepts, autonomy behaviors, and mission workflows into clear, observable, and testable product requirements and acceptance criteria while surfacing integration risks and constraint impacts early and driving resolution with stakeholders.
• Simulation, test, and flight enablement : Define how autonomy capabilities are exercised across SITL, HITL, large-scale simulation, and flight test; ensure product requirements support deterministic testing, safety assessment, and post-flight analysis; and partner with test and flight teams to evaluate capabilities against defined success criteria.
• Autonomyvehicle interaction alignment : Define product expectations for how autonomy interacts with vehicle management functionsincluding modes, transitions, constraints, and degraded operationsensuring capability definitions respect vehicle safety, performance, and operational envelopes across mission phases.
• Verification, validation, and readiness support : Define autonomy-related acceptance criteria and evidence expectations for capability readiness, ensure traceability from requirements through verification evidence and flight results, and support readiness discussions for autonomy integration into flight events and demonstrations.
• Cross-team product leadership : Provide product leadership across autonomy developers, mission system teams, simulation teams, and external partners, clearly communicating autonomy product intent, priorities, risks, and readiness to program leadership and stakeholders while maintaining alignment with overall product and mission objectives.
• External engagement and customer interface : Support government and partner engagements related to autonomy capability, integration approach, and transition planning, and help shape autonomy-related deliverables, demonstrations, and data products for external stakeholders.

Requirements :

Preferred Skills and Experience :

Salary : $160,000 - $220,000 a year

The salary information provided is a general guideline only. Hermeus takes various factors into account, including, but not limited to, the position's scope and responsibilities, the candidate's professional background, education and training, essential skills, and market and business considerations, when presenting a job offer.

Salary is only one part of our total compensation and benefits package. Hermeus offers competitive salary and equity, unlimited PTO policy, paid parental leave, potential for year-end bonuses, and more!

100% employer-paid health care

401k & Retirement Plans

Unlimited PTO

Weekly Paid Office Lunches

Fully stocked breakrooms

Stock Options

Paid Parental Leave

U.S. EXPORT CONTROL COMPLIANCE STATUS

The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls, and therefore, must either be a "U.S. person" as defined by 22 C.F.R. 120.62 or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing. US persons include U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), and asylees and refugees with such status granted, not pending.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Hermeus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions at Hermeus are based solely on merit, competence, and qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin / ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.