RAMS Engineer – System Reliability for Hypersonic Tech

Hypersonica GmbH; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

High ownership and autonomy

Competitive compensation with share/in

Real share options aligned to impact

Job summary

Hypersonica is seeking a Reliability / RAMS Engineer to join Europe’s defence-focused team in London. You will own system-level FMEA/FMECA frameworks across design, integration, and operations, driving risk-informed decisions throughout the product lifecycle.

Join a small, elite group solving high-stakes problems with autonomy and end-to-end accountability. You will apply fault trees and root-cause analysis to real test/flight data, ensuring robust, cost-aware designs for mission-critical

Qualifications

• Experience as a Reliability / Safety / RAMS Engineer on deployed systems.
• Strong FMEA/FMECA development and system-level risk modelling experience.
• Hands-on failure investigations in real-world environments (test, flight, launch, or in-service).
• Ability to balance reliability vs complexity trade-offs in engineering design.
• Experience with structured problem solving (fault trees, fishbone diagrams, root cause analysis).
• Background in aerospace, defence, or other highly complex system environments.
• Experience in roles such as quality, reliability, test, certification, V&V, or design engineering.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to influence across disciplines with rigour.

Responsibilities

• Own and develop system-level FMEA/FMECA frameworks across vehicle design, AIT, and operations.
• Define and drive a coherent system failure tolerance strategy balancing redundancy, complexity, and performance.
• Lead risk identification, quantification, and mitigation planning across the full product lifecycle.
• Build structured failure analysis methodologies (fault trees, root cause analysis) and apply to test/flight data.
• Translate reliability insights into design and architecture recommendations for avionics/subsystems.
• Evaluate trade-offs between reliability, cost, and performance for informed decisions.
• Ensure credible failure modes are identified, assessed, and mitigated to acceptable risk.
• Support and lead failure investigations from test campaigns, feeding learnings back into design.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with GNC, hardware, software, and integration teams to ensure holistic reliability.
• Drive design-for-reliability principles early to avoid over- or under-engineering.
• Establish RAMS practices suitable for high-performance, mission-critical aerospace systems.
• Continuously iterate based on real-world data to improve system robustness and viability.

Skills

Reliability engineering

RAMS

FMEA/FMECA

System-level risk modelling

Failure investigation

Aerospace/defence domain

Cross-functional collaboration

Fault tree analysis

Root cause analysis

Design-for-reliability

Job description

Hypersonica is seeking a Reliability / RAMS Engineer to join Europe’s defence-focused team in London. You will own system-level FMEA/FMECA frameworks across design, integration, and operations, driving risk-informed decisions throughout the product lifecycle.

Join a small, elite group solving high-stakes problems with autonomy and end-to-end accountability. You will apply fault trees and root-cause analysis to real test/flight data, ensuring robust, cost-aware designs for mission-critical