Senior Systems Engineer

Job description

What you'll do: - Establish and own the systems engineering capability for Hypersonica in the UK, defining approaches, interfaces, and ways of working from the ground up. - Own the end to end system architecture for a high speed aerospace system, translating mission intent into structured system requirements, logical architectures, and clear interface definitions. - Build and maintain the authoritative system model using model based systems engineering, ensuring traceability from mission objectives down to subsystem implementation. - Define and drive the verification and validation strategy, aligning requirements, simulation, ground test, and flight test into a coherent delivery plan. - Act as the technical integrator across guidance, avionics, propulsion, structures, software, and test, resolving interface ambiguity and maintaining architectural coherence. - Deliver PDR level system artefacts, including validated requirements baselines, interface control definitions, and a credible V&V framework. Who you are: - A senior systems engineer with 8+ years’ experience delivering complex aerospace or defence systems end to end. - Eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC or DV), with a UK p...