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Hypersonica is building Europe's hypersonic defence capability. This role owns the electrical power system architecture for high-speed flight vehicles, ensuring generation, conversion, storage, distribution, protection, and monitoring functions operate as a coherent and resilient system.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own electrical power system architecture for high-speed flight vehicles, ensuring all generation, conversion, storage, distribution, protection, and monitoring functions operate as an integrated system.
- Define, manage, and maintain power system requirements with full traceability from mission and vehicle-level needs through subsystem design, verification, and validation.
- Develop power-system architectures and performance budgets covering voltage regulation, load management, efficiency, redundancy, thermal constraints, fault tolerance, and mission-critical availability.
- Lead integration of power generation, battery systems, power electronics, energy storage, distribution networks, protection devices, and control systems across vehicle and payload architectures.
- Conduct electrical system analyses including load-flow, transient response, fault analysis, protection coordination, power quality, thermal performance, and reliability assessments.
- Define and support system-level modelling, simulation, laboratory testing, environmental qualification, and vehicle integration activities, using data-driven analysis to improve performance and mitigate risk.
- Produce and maintain critical engineering artefacts including specifications, electrical schematics, interface control documents (ICDs), analysis reports, verification plans, and design review material.
- Apply systems engineering and MBSE principles to ensure traceability between requirements, architectures, analyses, verification activities, and flight-test outcomes.
- Identify and mitigate system-level risks associated with power availability, thermal loading, EMC performance, reliability, safety, integration complexity, and operational resilience.
- Act as technical authority across electrical power systems, collaborating closely with avionics, controls, software, thermal, mechanical, EMC, and systems engineering teams.
The company culture emphasizes high ownership and autonomy, fast-paced execution where good ideas are implemented quickly, and feedback from testing and operational activities drives real decisions. Compensation is competitive with real share options aligned to responsibility and impact.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience delivering complex electrical power, energy storage, avionics, aerospace, defence, automotive, space, or other mission-critical systems.
- Strong background in electrical engineering fundamentals (the posting excerpt was truncated but indicates this is a core requirement).
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously with clear objectives and accountability for outcomes.
- Experience with systems engineering and MBSE principles.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
