Senior V&V Systems Engineer

Help Build Europe's Hypersonic Capability At the company, we’re redefining what’s possible in European defence technology. We exist to deliver speed, resilience, and technological independence at a pace that sets a new standard. We are a small, elite team working on problems that matter, and solving them fast.

By joining the company, you’re not stepping into a predefined role. You’re joining a talent dense environment where every individual shapes the direction of the company. Our philosophy is to hire a small number of exceptional people with broad, deep technical capability, strong judgement, and the ability to operate autonomously.

We hire for talent, not rigid boxes. This role represents a business need, but the way it evolves will be shaped by the individual. If you’ve achieved what others said was impossible, or you bring a unique combination of skills that doesn’t fit a traditional mould, we want to hear from you. The work you do here directly contributes to Europe’s technological independence.

Own thesystem architecture and system modelforthe company’shigh‑speed flight vehicles, ensuring mission intent, vehicle dynamics, avionics, and GNC form a coherent, verifiable whole.

Leadaerospace systems architecture design, taking responsibility for how the vehicle is defined across disciplines from early concept through Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and beyond.

Build andmaintaintheauthoritative system requirements model, decomposing mission‑levelobjectivesinto clear, testable system and sub‑system requirements.

Define and own theend‑to‑end system V‑model, including requirements validation, verification strategy, and clear readiness gates for Kick‑off and PDR.

Apply model‑based systems engineering (MBSE) as a practical engineering tool, not a documentation exercise, ensuring traceability between requirements, models, analyses, and tests.

Develop and deliver a6‑DoF Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) modelto PDR standard, in close collaboration with flight physics and avionics engineers.

Applyclosed‑loop control theoryin the context of high‑speed flight and military guidance, ensuring cont rollability, stability, and performance are understood at the system level.

Integrate vehicle dynamics, control laws, sensors, and actuators into a coherent closed‑loop system representation.

Identify system‑level risksearlyparticularly around requirements gaps, cont rollability, observability, and verification — and drive mitigations decisively.

Act as a technical authority across disciplines, keeping architectural decisions coherent as designs evolve at pace.

An experienced Systems Engineer with a strong track recordin system architecture, requirements decomposition, and delivery in safety‑or mission‑critical environments.

Deeply fluent inmodel‑based systems engineering, with practical experience owning requirements models and using MBSE to drive real engineering decisions.

Strong grounding inclosed‑loop control theory, applied to high‑speed flight, guidance, anddefenceor military systems.

Comfortable developing and working with6‑DoF flight and GNCmodels, and understanding their implications at vehicle level.

Experienced taking systems throughearly design gates(Kick‑off, PDR), not just theoretical or paper studies.

Someone who thinks insystembehaviours, 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 withoutconsensustheatre.

Motivated by working on systems where performance, robustness, and national‑level impact genuinely matter.

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)

A mission driven environment with the opportunity to work on one of Europe’s most consequentialdefencechallenges, with direct impact on sovereign capability and security.

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