Cambridge Aerospace
Senior Warhead Engineer
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Overview
Cambridge Aerospace is looking for a highly capable Senior Warhead & Lethality Engineer to lead the design, integration, modelling, and evaluation of advanced warhead systems across a range of programs. This is an opportunity to work across the full product lifecycle, from early concept development through analysis, testing, qualification, and production support.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, analysis, and integration of warhead systems within missile and aerospace platforms.
- Apply advanced engineering principles, scientific methods, and analytical techniques to solve complex technical challenges.
- Conduct warhead performance assessments, lethality studies, and vulnerability analyses.
- Perform hydrocode modelling and simulation to support design development and validation activities.
- Define warhead requirements and interface specifications in collaboration with systems engineering, guidance, navigation and control (GNC), mission systems, and platform teams.
- Support system-level performance modelling and trade studies.
- Plan, support, and analyze warhead development, qualification, and acceptance testing activities.
- Work closely with the energetics and ordnance testing teams to design scientifically robust test programs and evaluate results.
- Support the transition of designs from development into production.
- Produce high-quality technical documentation, reports, requirements, test plans, and design reviews.
- Ensure technical rigour, engineering excellence, and compliance with applicable standards throughout the development lifecycle.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers where appropriate.
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or another relevant STEM discipline.
- At least five years of experience in the development of warheads from conceptual design through final test/assembly.
- Working knowledge or experience with either missile design or development, production support, and integration.
- Strong understanding of explosives, energetics, and warhead performance principles.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and lead collaborative efforts with other technical disciplines including structural, thermal, and aerodynamics.
- Experience with MoD customers and/or associated contractor executives and technical leadership.
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What We Offer
- Competitive compensation and stock options
- Private Medical & Dental
- Cycle to work scheme
- Lunchtime catering on site
About Us
The mission of Cambridge Aerospace is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe. That risk comes from the air – low-cost drones and cruise missiles now manufactured in colossal volumes by our adversaries, ballistic missiles capable of ending the world as we know it, and a new generation of hypersonic weapons that evade every existing defence. We’re building low-cost interceptors that defeat these threats, and the surveillance systems to detect and target them – at a cost taxpayers can afford, at the pace the threat demands, and with sovereign supply chains that assure delivery. We have immense backing from the world’s best venture funds. We’re one of the fastest-growing defense technology companies in history. And we’re hiring the best engineers to prosecute the mission.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.
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