Stress Engineer

What you'll do

• Define stress methods, standards, and ways of working from the ground up.
• Own structural sizing and margins for flight and ground hardware across extreme thermal, dynamic, and load environments.
• Perform first principle hand calculations alongside FEA to rapidly iterate designs and unblock hardware decisions.
• Partner closely with design, materials, and test engineers to translate real world loads into robust, manufacturable structures.
• Use test data and flight results to validate models, close assumptions, and drive fast design iteration.
• Work closely with top tier engineers and operators across disciplines to deliver real systems at speed.
• Apply creative problem solving to challenges with no existing playbook.
• Take ownership from concept through execution, testing, and iteration.

Who you are

• A stress or structural analysis engineer with 4+ years’ experience in aerospace, defence, or other high-load, high-temperature engineering domains.
• Deeply comfortable with first-principles structural reasoning, not just tool-driven analysis.
• Someone who understands how loads, materials, manufacturing, and test realities interact in real hardware.
• Fluent moving between hand calculations and FEA, using each where it adds the most value.
• Confident making engineering judgements with incomplete data, and standing behind them.
• Motivated by environments where structures are pushed to limits, not padded by conservatism.
• Able to think across concept, detail design, and test feedback, not treating analysis as a one-off activity.
• Energised by building a stress capability from the ground up in a small team where your decisions directly affect flight success.

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.