Senior Safety Engineer

Help Build Europe's Hypersonic Capability

What you'll do:

• Lead a System Safety Program across Hypersonica’s portfolio of products and projects, ensuring hazards are identified early, risks are understood, and safety cases remain robust through system design, development, test, and operations.
• Own the safety case lifecycle end to end: hazard identification, risk assessment, FTA, FMEA/FMECA, and clear traceability from hazards to mitigations and evidence.
• Build and implement a lean, tailored safety approach that meets applicable aerospace and defence standards without unnecessarily slowing development.
• Own the production of Hypersonica’s safety procedure and embed it into how engineering and test actually run day to day.
• Lead design safety and trial safety, ensuring safety evidence is credible for readiness reviews and operations.
• Manage and challenge external safety support where required, pulling capability in-house over time and driving the company toward autonomy.
• Shape and embed software safety practices appropriate to missile systems and safety-critical environments.

Who you are:

• Senior safety engineer with working experience of defence land systems, regulators, and Def Stan 07-085 (or equivalent).
• Deep experience running the safety case lifecycle (hazards, FTA, FMEA/FMECA, risk assessment, safety case production) and making it stand up under scrutiny.
• Strong capability in software safety within safety-critical defence/aerospace systems.
• Able to build a safety management system from scratch and set a minimum credible approach that enables a fast-moving startup rather than blocking it.
• Comfortable operating with high autonomy: you can own the safety program internally while coordinating external specialists where needed.
• Pragmatic and decisive: you know where rigor adds value and where it becomes theatre, and you can explain the tradeoffs.

Security and Eligibility 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).

What we offer:

• 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.
• Competitive compensation and real share options aligned to responsibility and impact, not tenure or hierarchy.

Hypersonica is an equal-opportunity employer and assesses candidates solely on merit, capability, and potential.