Hypersonic Systems Deputy Program Engineer

Castelion Corporation; Torrance, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Castelion Corporation is seeking a Deputy Program Engineer for Hypersonic Strike to lead system-level trades, maintain vehicle configurations, and drive technical execution across the program.

You will partner with the Responsible Engineer, manage testing progress, and coordinate multi-discipline analyses and reviews to ensure mission readiness. The role demands broad ownership and effective cross-functional communication.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Own the objectives, success criteria, schedule, and vehicle configuration for each development test.
• Align these with program leadership and technical stakeholders.
• 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

Hands-on hardware design

Testing

Support

Project management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or Electrical Engineering

Job description

Castelion Corporation is seeking a Deputy Program Engineer for Hypersonic Strike to lead system-level trades, maintain vehicle configurations, and drive technical execution across the program.

You will partner with the Responsible Engineer, manage testing progress, and coordinate multi-discipline analyses and reviews to ensure mission readiness. The role demands broad ownership and effective cross-functional communication.