Deputy Program Engineer: Hypersonic Systems Lead (Equity)

Cantos Ventures; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Paid time off & holidays

Health benefits

Parental leave

Job summary

Castelion is seeking a Deputy Program Engineer, Hypersonic Strike in Torrance, CA. You will perform system-level trades for Blackbeard development milestones and own the vehicle configuration and release status for all development flights.

You will act as the primary technical partner to the product Responsible Engineer, maintaining a vehicle-level understanding and driving technical execution across the program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• Demonstrated project management and communication skillset across 100+ organizations.
• 8+ years of hands-on hardware design, testing, and support.

Responsibilities

• Own the objectives, success criteria, schedule, and vehicle configuration for each development test.
• Own the integrated technical configuration for each development vehicle and mission, including top-level vehicle CAD, interfaces, configuration baselines, and design release status.
• Identify and resolve cross-functional technical issues, interface conflicts, and configuration gaps that could impact vehicle performance, build, test, or flight.
• Track and communicate vehicle technical maturity, schedule, critical-path risks, and readiness to the broader organization and program leadership.
• Lead vehicle and mission readiness reviews, ensuring technical risks, open work, deviations, and required decisions are clearly understood and driven to closure.
• Coordinate preflight engineering verification across all disciplines, ensuring required analyses, tests, inspections, and technical approvals are completed.
• Own or coordinate key customer technical data deliveries and mission-specific vehicle information.
• Ensure lessons learned from ground and flight testing are rapidly incorporated into subsequent vehicle configurations.
• Operate with broad authority across the program and drive issues to closure regardless of functional ownership.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical Engineering, or related field

Job description

Castelion is seeking a Deputy Program Engineer, Hypersonic Strike in Torrance, CA. You will perform system-level trades for Blackbeard development milestones and own the vehicle configuration and release status for all development flights.

You will act as the primary technical partner to the product Responsible Engineer, maintaining a vehicle-level understanding and driving technical execution across the program.