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

Job description

**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