RAMS Engineer (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety)

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 and develop system-level FMEA / FMECA frameworks across vehicle design, AIT, and operations
• Define and drive a coherent system failure tolerance strategy, balancing redundancy, complexity, and performance
• Lead risk identification, quantification, and mitigation planning across the full product lifecycle
• Build structured failure analysis methodologies (fault trees, root cause analysis, etc.) and apply them to real test/flight data
• Translate reliability insights into clear design and architecture recommendations across avionics and system subsystems
• Evaluate trade-offs between reliability, cost, and performance, enabling informed engineering decision-making
• Ensure all credible failure modes are identified, assessed, and mitigated to acceptable risk levels
• Support and lead failure investigations from test campaigns, feeding learnings directly back into design
• Collaborate cross-functionally with GNC, hardware, software, and integration teams to ensure holistic system reliability
• Drive design-for-reliability principles early in the development cycle to avoid over- or under-engineering
• Establish best-in-class RAMS practices suitable for high-performance, mission-critical aerospace systems
• Continuously iterate based on real-world data to improve system robustness and long-term viability

Who you are

• An experienced Reliability / Safety / RAMS Engineer with a track record of working on real, deployed systems
• Strong experience in FMEA / FMECA development and system-level risk modelling
• Hands-on experience in failure investigation in real-world environments (test, flight, launch, or in-service systems)
• Proven ability to balance reliability vs complexity trade-offs in engineering design
• Experience applying structured problem-solving methods (e.g. fault trees, fishbone diagrams, root cause analysis)
• Background in aerospace, defence, or other highly complex system environments
• Experience in roles such as quality, reliability, test, certification, V&V, or design engineering
• Strong systems thinking - you can evaluate risk holistically rather than optimising locally
• Ability to influence design decisions across disciplines with clarity and engineering rigour
• Comfortable operating with incomplete data, ambiguity, and tight constraints
• You’ve worked on systems where failure has real-world consequences, not just theoretical models
• You take ownership of complex problems and drive them through to resolution