Senior Electronic Warfare Engineer

About the role

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 methodologies. Familiar with MBSE approaches and capable of applying systems engineering rigour to complex, multidisciplinary defence programmes. Experienced supporting major design reviews, platform integration acti

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