hypersonica-prod - 67 Senior AIT Engineer
Requirements
• A senior AIT / Assembly, Integration & Test Engineer with hands‑on experience taking complex hardware from drawings to integrated systems. • Strong background in mechanical assembly and integration, ideally in aerospace environments (military, civil aviation, launch vehicles, or satellites), with automotive experience also acceptable. • Experienced creating build instructions and assembly procedures directly from engineering drawings. • Comfortable writing and executing integration and test procedures, and working on the shop floor to resolve real‑world build and integration challenges. • Familiar working across disciplines, coordinating with mechanical, systems, avionics, and EWIS engineering teams. • Highly organised and detail‑oriented, with a strong instinct for process discipline, build quality, and configuration control. • Able to anticipate integration risks early and drive practical mitigations through tooling, sequencing, or design feedback. • Comfortable operating in fast‑moving, prototype‑heavy environments where processes are built and refined in parallel with hardware. • Confident owning issues end‑to‑end, from identification through root‑cause analysis and corrective action. • Motivated by seeing hardware physically come together, function as intended, and progress toward flight. • ## Security and Eligibility 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
• Bring experimental vehicles from design concept to flight‑ready reality, owning Assembly, Integration, and Test (AIT) execution as a core delivery function. • Develop assembly, integration, and test procedures directly from engineering drawings and design data, ensuring accuracy, repeatability, and build readiness. • Translate design intent into clear, executable build instructions for mechanical, avionics, and vehicle‑level integration. • Define and document assembly and integration sequences, from sub‑assembly build through full vehicle integration. • Identify required tooling, fixtures, software tools, and facility capabilities needed to execute AIT activities safely and efficiently. • Develop internal specifications and process controls to ensure build reliability, repeatability, and adherence to quality and safety standards. • Work hands‑on during mechanical and avionics assembly and integration, supporting technicians and engineers through build and test execution. • Collaborate closely with Mechanical Design, Systems, Avionics, and EWIS engineers to resolve integration issues and close design‑for‑integration gaps. • Partner with Supply Chain to identify long‑lead items (LLIs), spares, and critical hardware, defining need‑by dates aligned to the AIT plan. • Produce and maintain the Manufacturing BOM, integrating tools, consumables, and hardware requirements into the engineering BOM. • Define and operate a non‑conformance reporting and resolution framework, ensuring issues are clearly documented, resolved, and fed back into design and process updates. • Support integration testing by creating integration test procedures, executing tests, and capturing results to enable progression toward flight readiness.
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