Jobs at Hypersonica

Perform aerospace structural loads analysis for flight and ground phases, including launch, ascent, staging, re-entry, and landing. Build coupled loads and finite element models, conduct structural dynamics and vibration analyses, oversee modal and shock testing, and validate simulations against telemetry. The role requires aerospace or mechanical engineering expertise, strong knowledge of structural dynamics and aeroelasticity, and proficiency with OptiStruct and HyperMesh.

Build and lead Hypersonica’s UK legal function, advising founders and senior leaders on commercial contracts, government and defence programmes, intellectual property, export controls, sanctions, national security, corporate governance, employment matters, compliance, and strategic transactions. The role requires practical, commercially minded risk advice, development of legal processes and templates, management of external counsel, and eventual team building.

Interns will work on real hypersonic aerospace hardware and programs alongside experienced engineers and operators. Depending on their background, responsibilities may involve propulsion, aerodynamics, structures, materials, avionics, guidance and navigation control, software, electronics, manufacturing, testing, quality, simulation, data, or operations. The role emphasizes independent problem-solving, rapid learning, first-principles thinking, building and testing, clear communication, and working onsite with hardware-focused teams.

Supports live defence programmes through analysis, planning, tracking, customer engagement, briefing preparation, and operational execution. The role translates customer requirements, policy context, and programme constraints into actionable inputs; assists programme managers; engages military and government stakeholders; and handles ambiguous, high-ownership tasks in a fast-paced environment.

Support delivery of complex defence programmes by coordinating schedules, workstreams, stakeholders, suppliers, risks, actions, and dependencies. Translate customer and contractual requirements into plans, milestones, presentations, and decisions. Contribute to programme reporting, commercial activities, change control, proposals, and strategic analysis while taking ownership of increasingly complex responsibilities. The role requires strong communication, organisation, bilingual German and English fluency, and comfort operating across technical, commercial, and customer-facing environments.

As a Manufacturing Controls Lead, you'll develop standards, collaborate with vendors, and ensure data continuity within complex manufacturing systems.

As a Programme Manager at Hypersonica, you'll oversee complex programmes in UK defence, ensuring timely delivery, managing budgets, schedules, risks, and leading cross-functional teams while interfacing with military and government stakeholders.

As the Military Business Development Manager, you'll capture defence opportunities, engage with UK military stakeholders, develop growth strategies, and articulate Hypersonica's value in hypersonic capabilities.

The Senior Quality Engineer will establish a Quality Management System for hypersonic hardware, manage nonconformance processes, and ensure supplier quality while collaborating with engineering and manufacturing teams.

The role focuses on bridging product development and manufacturing, optimizing designs for production, and ensuring efficient processes to accelerate time to market in aerospace and defense sectors.

Lead the supply chain capabilities for Hypersonica in the UK, focusing on procurement of complex aerospace hardware and establishing resilient supply networks.

The role involves leading systems architecture for hypersonic vehicles, ensuring integration across engineering disciplines, validating requirements, and mitigating system-level risks in high-speed flight.

The role focuses on managing assembly and joining processes, collaborating with engineering teams, and leading manufacturing operations for high-performance systems in a fast-paced environment.

Lead mechanical assembly, integration, and test (AIT) for hypersonic vehicles: develop assembly procedures from CAD/drawings, define tooling/fixtures, support hands‑on builds, ensure configuration control and mechanical readiness for testing, and collaborate across mechanical, systems, and electrical teams to resolve integration issues.

Perform electrical assembly, integration, and test (AIT) for hypersonic vehicles: develop wiring and integration procedures from schematics/CAD, define integration sequences, prepare tools/test equipment, support avionics and sensor installation, set up DAQ/test systems, perform integration testing and fault‑finding, and maintain build documentation with traceability.

Lead system-level RAMS activities including FMEA/FMECA, fault-tree analysis, failure investigations, and risk quantification. Translate reliability insights into design recommendations across avionics, GNC, hardware and software, drive design-for-reliability, and establish RAMS practices for mission-critical hypersonic systems throughout development, test, and operations.