Senior AI Engineer, Internal AI Platforms

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 seeking a Senior AI Engineer, Internal AI Platforms to help design, build, and scale Cortex, our internal AI platform. Cortex is intended to become the centralized AI platform across the company - enabling employees to securely interact with internal knowledge, business systems, workflows, and future agentic capabilities within a highly governed environment. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building secure, scalable, production-grade AI systems for enterprise use. The ideal candidate has experience developing LLM-enabled applicati