Senior MBSE & Verification Engineer – High-Speed Flight

Hypersonica; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mission-driven work

Autonomy

No micromanagement

Learning opportunities

Fast-paced environment

Share options

Impact on sovereign capability

Job summary

Hypersonica, a UK defence tech innovator, seeks an experienced Systems Engineer to own the system architecture for Europe’s high-speed flight vehicles. You will shape mission requirements, vehicle dynamics, avionics, and GNC into a coherent, verifiable whole.

You will lead architecture design through early concept, PDR, and beyond, build an authoritative requirements model, and define the end-to-end V-model with validation and verification strategies.

Qualifications

• Experience in system architecture, requirements decomposition, and delivery in safety-critical environments.
• Fluency in MBSE to drive engineering decisions.
• Strong grounding in closed-loop control theory for high-speed flight or defence systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the system architecture and model for Hypersonica's high-speed flight vehicles.
• Lead aerospace systems architecture design across disciplines from concept to PDR.
• Build and maintain the authoritative system requirements model with testable requirements.
• Define and own the end-to-end system V-model with validation and verification strategy.
• Apply MBSE as a practical engineering tool ensuring traceability between requirements, models, analyses, and tests.
• Develop and deliver a 6-DoF GNC model to PDR standard in collaboration with flight physics and avionics engineers.
• Apply closed-loop control theory to ensure controllability, stability, and performance at the system level.
• Integrate vehicle dynamics, control laws, sensors, and actuators into a coherent closed-loop system representation.
• Identify system-level risks early and drive mitigations decisively.
• Act as a technical authority across disciplines to maintain architectural coherence as designs evolve.

Skills

MBSE

Systems architecture

Requirements decomposition

Safety-critical environments

Kick-off / PDR

Tools

SysML

Job description

Hypersonica, a UK defence tech innovator, seeks an experienced Systems Engineer to own the system architecture for Europe’s high-speed flight vehicles. You will shape mission requirements, vehicle dynamics, avionics, and GNC into a coherent, verifiable whole.

You will lead architecture design through early concept, PDR, and beyond, build an authoritative requirements model, and define the end-to-end V-model with validation and verification strategies.