As a Senior Battery System Engineer, you will provide technical and systems-level leadership for the battery system on the Valo aircraft. You will work at the intersection of mechanical, electrical, BMS, electrochemical, and aircraft-level engineering, coordinating across teams to ensure a safe, compliant, and high-performing system.
Requirements
- Act as the technical authority for the aircraft battery system, owning system architecture, interfaces, and integration from aircraft-level requirements through to equipment-level implementation.
- Lead the development, validation, and verification of battery system requirements in accordance with ARP4754A, ensuring robust traceability and certification readiness.
- Play a key role in system safety activities including Functional Hazard Assessments and Fault Tree Analyses in line with ARP4761.
- Deliver system-level performance analyses and trade studies, balancing safety, performance, weight, cost, and operational constraints.
- Define and support verification and validation strategies, including test planning, execution support, and certification-quality evidence.
- Act as the primary technical focal point across engineering teams, suppliers, and programme stakeholders, leading design reviews and technical decision-making.
- Work closely with programme management to align technical maturity with cost, schedule, and entry-into-service objectives.
Benefits
- 26 days holiday, plus bank holiday
- 5 extra days per year to buy (or sell)
- 5 extra days holiday when you get married or enter a civil partnership
- Additional 4% of your salary to spend on extra benefits
- Award-winning digital health and wellbeing service (Help@Hand)
- Company performance based bonus - rewarding company and individual performance
- Company Share Scheme - open to every Vertical employee
- Company Pension Scheme - 5% and we match it
- Breakfast on us, every day