Senior V&V Systems Engineer

Help Build Europe's Hypersonic Capability

At Hypersonica
, 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 Hypersonica
, 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 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.
• 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 a 6-DoF Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) model to PDR standard, in close collaboration with flight physics and avionics engineers.
• Apply closed-loop control theory in 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 risks early particularly 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 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.