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What you'll do

• Establish and own the systems engineering capability for Hypersonica in the UK, defining approaches, interfaces, and ways of working from the ground up.
• Own the end to end system architecture for a high speed aerospace system, translating mission intent into structured system requirements, logical architectures, and clear interface definitions.
• Build and maintain the authoritative system model using model based systems engineering, ensuring traceability from mission objectives down to subsystem implementation.
• Define and drive the verification and validation strategy, aligning requirements, simulation, ground test, and flight test into a coherent delivery plan.
• Act as the technical integrator across guidance, avionics, propulsion, structures, software, and test, resolving interface ambiguity and maintainin...