Jobs at Hypersonica

Own the technical integrity and whole-vehicle architecture of hypersonic flight vehicles from concept through integration, testing, and flight. Lead system requirements, interfaces, multidisciplinary trade-offs, technical risk, design reviews, and flight readiness. Integrate GNC, avionics, software, propulsion, aerodynamics, structures, thermal, power, and payload systems while resolving cross-discipline conflicts. Work hands-on with engineering, manufacturing, assembly, integration, and test teams to make consequential technical decisions under uncertainty.

Develop and optimize simulation software for hypersonic vehicle aerodynamics, aerothermal, and aerostructural modeling. Design numerical solvers, multiphysics coupling strategies, preprocessing and visualization tools, and scalable HPC workflows using MPI, OpenMP, and GPUs. Implement verification, validation, testing, and software engineering practices while collaborating with engineering teams to support rapid design iterations.

Own the physical and mathematical foundations of hypersonic vehicle simulation. Develop multiphysics models covering fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and structural response; design numerical schemes and coupling methods; lead verification and validation; apply uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis; and create reduced-order models. Collaborate with numerical code development and aerospace engineering teams to deliver reliable, traceable simulation tools for design and flight decisions.

Define seeker system requirements, manage interfaces with flight control and avionics teams, support hardware/software integration and testing, analyze test and flight data, collaborate with suppliers, maintain technical documentation, and model seeker performance including signal processing and detection/tracking.

Own aeroelastic analysis of hypersonic vehicles from concept through testing, covering flutter, divergence, panel flutter, thermal effects, aeroservoelasticity, modal analysis, and ground vibration testing. Develop coupled structural and aerodynamic models, correlate simulations with test data, support in-house simulation tools, and collaborate with aerodynamics, structures, thermal, and GNC teams.

Own aerodynamic control and flight dynamics simulations for hypersonic vehicles from concept through flight testing. Develop 6-DOF models integrating aerodynamics, mass properties, actuators, and environmental effects. Assess stability, controllability, robustness, and control-surface performance across the flight envelope. Support MIL, SIL, and HIL testing, correlate models with wind-tunnel and flight data, and collaborate with GNC, aerodynamics, aeroelastic, and systems teams.

Design and develop ground segment systems supporting command and control, telemetry, communications, and ground support equipment. Define requirements and interfaces with vehicle avionics and flight control systems, support hardware and software integration and testing, contribute to launch and test campaign operations, and maintain technical documentation. The role requires collaboration across engineering, operations, and defense teams, along with eligibility for security clearance and EU, NATO, or German citizenship.

Own the direction and lifecycle of a complex weapon system, including roadmap, product baseline, variants, configuration, capability releases, trade-offs, and product priorities. Coordinate engineering, manufacturing, testing, safety, quality, programs, and integrated logistics support. Use customer, operator, integration, production, maintenance, and test evidence to guide product evolution while ensuring reliability, safety, maintainability, producibility, and supportability.

Design and specify vehicle-to-ground communication links for hypersonic aerospace systems, including RF link budgets, waveforms, interfaces, and performance requirements. Support hardware and protocol integration, bench testing, field testing, anomaly troubleshooting, RF component selection, and technical documentation. The role requires communications systems expertise, hands-on RF test experience, and eligibility for security clearance.

Own Assembly, Integration and Test planning and execution for avionics and vehicle-level hardware. Define test requirements, acceptance criteria, and traceability; integrate subsystems; diagnose anomalies; lead root-cause analysis; develop tooling and ground support requirements; maintain build and test documentation; and support on-site test and launch campaigns.

Design and implement signal-processing algorithms for sensor data, validate them through simulation and hardware integration, characterize signal and noise performance, analyze test and field data, and collaborate with seeker, avionics, and GNC teams. The role requires expertise in digital signal processing, filtering, estimation, detection and tracking algorithms, MATLAB or Python, and real-time embedded implementation constraints.

Design and analyze flight control algorithms and GNC architecture for hypersonic defense systems. Develop and validate control laws using MATLAB/Simulink and 6-DOF simulations, define system requirements, manage avionics and seeker interfaces, support HIL testing and flight campaigns, analyze flight data, investigate root causes, and maintain technical documentation.

Own technical delivery for Canadian aerospace projects from concept through integration, testing, and flight. Serve as the senior technical authority, lead multidisciplinary teams across systems, mechanical, avionics, GNC, software, AIT, and test, and drive architecture, requirements, interfaces, verification, technical reviews, and risk management. Build the Canadian engineering organization, mentor staff, coordinate with company leadership and test-site teams, and translate customer and mission needs into flight-ready capability.

Own system safety across the full product lifecycle for hypersonic defence systems. Build and lead the safety function, establish safety frameworks, manage hazard analyses and safety cases, guide assurance and verification, and lead flight-test safety activities. Represent the company with regulators, test ranges, and qualification authorities while making independent safety decisions under uncertainty. The role requires substantial experience in aerospace, defence, guided weapons, propulsion, autonomy, or other high-consequence engineering environments.

Own the Integrated Logistics Support workstream for defence or aerospace programmes, covering logistics support analysis, maintenance planning, spares, technical publications, training, and obsolescence. Partner with engineering, customers, subcontractors, and suppliers to deliver supportability outcomes, manage risk, develop processes, contribute to bids, and make cost, schedule, and logistics trade-off decisions.

Support delivery of complex defence programmes by translating engineering progress, customer requirements, and contractual inputs into plans, milestones, risks, and decisions. Coordinate technical reviews, partners, subcontractors, safety frameworks, proposals, and programme reporting. The role requires growing technical fluency, ownership of workstreams, and effective communication between engineering, commercial, programme, and customer stakeholders in bilingual German-English settings.

As a Senior Programme Manager, you'll lead defence programmes, manage customer relationships, translate needs into plans, and ensure successful execution while balancing commercial and technical aspects.

As a Programme Manager at Hypersonica, you'll oversee defence programmes, manage cross-functional teams, coordinate customer needs, and ensure seamless execution of projects while driving resolutions to issues that arise.

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 end-to-end simulation environments for hypersonic and weapons-effects modelling. Conduct CFD, FEM, or Lagrangian particle-tracking analyses; perform sensitivity and trade-off studies; validate models against physical test data; automate simulation workflows; and provide quantitative insights that inform aerospace system design and effectiveness.