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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # V&V Systems Engineer - **Company:** Hypersonica - **Location:** UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Software Requirements Analysis, Subsystems, Systems Architecture, Time Tracking Software, SC Clearance - **Published:** September 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-vv-systems-engineer-hypersonica-8292687 ## About the Role * An experienced Systems Engineer with a strong track record in system architecture, requirements decomposition, and delivery in safety- or mission-critical environments. * Deeply fluent in model-based systems engineering, with practical experience owning requirements models and using MBSE to drive real engineering decisions. * Strong grounding in closed-loop control theory, applied to high-speed flight, guidance, and defence or military systems. * Comfortable developing and working with 6-DoF flight and GNC models, and understanding their implications at vehicle level. * Experienced taking systems through early design gates (Kick-off, PDR), not just theoretical or paper studies. * Someone who thinks in system behaviours, interfaces, and failure modes, not isolated components. * Confident operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where decisions must be made with incomplete data. * Technically credible across disciplines, able to challenge assumptions and close decisions without consensus theatre. * Motivated by working on systems where performance, robustness, and national-level impact genuinely matter. Security and Elgibility Requirement Due to the nature of the work with the UK MOD, applicants must be a British Citizen (or Dual UK national with British citizenship) and eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC) and, where required, Developed Vetting (DV) ## Description At Hypersonica, we're redefining what's possible in European defence technology. We exist to deliver speed, resilience, and technological independence at a pace that sets a new standard. We are a small, elite team working on problems that matter, and solving them fast. By joining Hypersonica, you're not stepping into a predefined role. You're joining a talent dense environment where every individual shapes the direction of the company. Our philosophy is to hire a small number of exceptional people with broad, deep technical capability, strong judgement, and the ability to operate autonomously. We hire for talent, not rigid boxes. This role represents a business need, but the way it evolves will be shaped by the individual. If you've achieved what others said was impossible, or you bring a unique combination of skills that doesn't fit a traditional mould, we want to hear from you. The work you do here directly contributes to Europe's technological independence. What you'll do * Own the system architecture and system model for Hypersonica's high-speed flight vehicles, ensuring mission intent, vehicle dynamics, avionics, and GNC form a coherent, verifiable whole. * Lead aerospace systems architecture design, taking responsibility for how the vehicle is defined across disciplines from early concept through Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and beyond. * Build and maintain the authoritative system requirements model, decomposing mission-level objectives into clear, testable system and sub-system requirements. * Define and own the end-to-end system V-model, including requirements validation, verification strategy, and clear readiness gates for Kick-off and PDR. * Apply model-based systems engineering (MBSE) as a practical engineering tool, not a documentation exercise, ensuring traceability between requirements, models, analyses, and tests. * Develop and deliver a 6-DoF Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) model to PDR standard, in close collaboration with flight physics and avionics engineers. * Apply closed-loop control theory in the context of high-speed flight and military guidance, ensuring controllability, stability, and performance are understood at the system level. * Integrate vehicle dynamics, control laws, sensors, and actuators into a coherent closed-loop system representation. * Identify system-level risks early particularly around requirements gaps, controllability, observability, and verification - and drive mitigations decisively. * Act as a technical authority across disciplines, keeping architectural decisions coherent as designs evolve at pace., * A mission driven environment with the opportunity to work on one of Europe's most consequential defence challenges, with direct impact on sovereign capability and security. * Daily collaboration with top experts across engineering, operations, and defence, with real opportunity to learn from the best, contribute, and grow. * High ownership and autonomy; no time tracking, no micromanagement, just clear objectives and accountability for outcomes. * A fast paced environment where good ideas are implemented quickly, and feedback from test and flight drives real decisions. * A culture that values clarity, integrity, and excellence, and supports people who take initiative and push boundaries responsibly. ## Related Videos - [Model Based Systems Engineering in an Agile Product Development Process](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/68-model-based-systems-engineering-in-an-agile-product-development-process) - [10M Data Records Lost, Underwater Computing, and Psychedelic Fish - Matthias Geniar](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1908-10m-data-records-lost-underwater-computing-and-psychedelic-fish-matthias-geniar) - [Automated Driving - Why is it so hard to introduce](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/628-automated-driving-why-is-it-so-hard-to-introduce) - [Develop on Windows, Deploy on Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1600-develop-on-windows-deploy-on-red-hat-enterprise-linux) - [Unlocking the potential of Digital & IT at Vodafone](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/602-unlocking-the-potential-of-digital-it-at-vodafone) - [Building a hypercar from scratch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/607-building-a-hypercar-from-scratch) ## Related Articles - [How software is steering vehicle technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/515-how-software-is-steering-vehicle-technology) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk) - [UK Business Culture and Etiquette](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/326-uk-business-culture-and-etiquette) - [Software Engineer Salary in The UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/231-software-engineer-salary-in-the-uk) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs)