hypersonica-prod - Hypersonica - 66 Senior V&V Systems Engineer

London+ Equity3mo ago

In Office Senior EMEA Airlines Architecture Systems Engineer Aerospace Engineer Technical Support Engineer Close

Requirements

• An experienced Systems Engineer with a strong track record in system architecture, requirements decomposition, and delivery in safety‑ or mission‑critical environments. • Deeply fluent in model‑based systems engineering, with practical experience owning requirements models and using MBSE to drive real engineering decisions. • Strong grounding in closed‑loop control theory, applied to high‑speed flight, guidance, and defence or military systems. • Comfortable developing and working with 6‑DoF flight and GNC models, and understanding their implications at vehicle level. • Experienced taking systems through early design gates (Kick‑off, PDR), not just theoretical or paper studies. • Someone who thinks in system behaviours, interfaces, and failure modes, not isolated components. • Confident operating in ambiguous, fast‑moving environments where decisions must be made with incomplete data. • Technically credible across disciplines, able to challenge assumptions and close decisions without consensus theatre. • Motivated by working on systems where performance, robustness, and national‑level impact genuinely matter. • ## Security and Elgibility Requirement • Due to the nature of the work with the UK MOD, applicants must be a British Citizen (or Dual UK national with British citizenship) and eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC) and, where required, Developed Vetting (DV)

Responsibilities

• Own the system architecture and system model for Hypersonica’s high‑speed flight vehicles, ensuring mission intent, vehicle dynamics, avionics, and GNC form a coherent, verifiable whole. • Lead aerospace systems architecture design, taking responsibility for how the vehicle is defined across disciplines from early concept through Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and beyond. • Build and maintain the authoritative system requirements model, decomposing mission‑level objectives into clear, testable system and sub‑system requirements. • Define and own the end‑to‑end system V‑model, including requirements validation, verification strategy, and clear readiness gates for Kick‑off and PDR. • Develop and deliver a 6‑DoF Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) model to PDR standard, in close collaboration with flight physics and avionics engineers. • Integrate vehicle dynamics, control laws, sensors, and actuators into a coherent closed‑loop system representation. • Identify system‑level risks early particularly around requirements gaps, controllability, observability, and verification — and drive mitigations decisively. • Act as a technical authority across disciplines, keeping architectural decisions coherent as designs evolve at pace.