19 RAMS Engineer (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety)

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