Senior Electronic Warfare Engineer

Help Build Europe's Hypersonic Capability 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 of Hypersonica's Electronic Warfare (EW) capability, ensuring electronic support (ES), electronic attack (EA), and electronic protection (EP) functions operate as a coherent and mission-effective system. • Define, maintain, and manage EW system requirements, ensuring full traceability from operational needs through system architecture, subsystem allocation, verification, and validation. • Lead the development of EW system architectures, performance budgets, interface definitions, and mission integrations across airborne platforms and payloads. • Conduct threat, signal, and electromagnetic environment analyses to assess system effectiveness against representative adversary capabilities and operational conditions. • Lead the integration of RF sensors, receivers, transmitters, antenna systems, signal processing functions, mission computers, and platform interfaces into a coherent operational capability. • Define and oversee system-level modelling, simulation, laboratory testing, ground trials, and flight trials, using evidence-based analysis to drive design improvements and risk reduction. • Produce and maintain critical systems engineering artefacts including system specifications, interface control documents (ICDs), verification strategies, test plans, and design review materials. • Apply model-based systems engineering (MBSE) principles to ensure traceability between requirements, architectures, analyses, verification activities, and operational outcomes. • Identify and mitigate system-level risks, particularly around electromagnetic performance, interoperability, survivability, cybersecurity, verification, and platform integration. • Act as the technical authority for EW system engineering, working across RF, software, hardware, mission systems, cybersecurity, safety, and platform engineering disciplines to deliver robust operational capability. Who you are  • An experienced Systems Engineer with 8+ years of experience delivering complex Electronic Warfare, RF, mission systems, avionics, aerospace, defence, or other mission-critical systems. • Strong background in systems architecture, requirements development, requirements decomposition, verification, and validation throughout the engineering lifecycle. • Deep understanding of Electronic Warfare concepts, including electronic support (ES), electronic attack (EA), electronic protection (EP), threat systems, and electromagnetic spectrum operations. • Experience integrating RF sensors, receivers, transmitters, antennas, signal processing systems, and mission computers into operational platforms. • Strong knowledge of electromagnetic environments, system performance analysis, modelling, simulation, and test methodologi