Deputy Program Engineer, Hypersonic Strike

Responsibilities

• Own the objectives, success criteria, schedule, and vehicle configuration for each development test.
• Align these with program leadership and technical stakeholders.
• Own the integrated technical configuration for each development vehicle and mission, including top-level vehicle CAD, interfaces, configuration baselines, and design release status.
• Identify and resolve cross-functional technical issues, interface conflicts, and configuration gaps that could impact vehicle performance, build, test, or flight.
• Track and communicate vehicle technical maturity, schedule, critical-path risks, and readiness to the broader organization and program leadership.
• Lead vehicle and mission readiness reviews, ensuring technical risks, open work, deviations, and required decisions are clearly understood and driven to closure.
• Cook up and communicate preflight engineering verification across all disciplines, ensuring required analyses, tests, inspections, and technical approvals are completed.
• Own or coordinate key customer technical data deliveries and mission-specific vehicle information.
• Ensure lessons learned from ground and flight testing are rapidly incorporated into subsequent vehicle configurations.
• Operate with broad authority across the program and drive issues to closure regardless of functional ownership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on hardware design, testing, and support.
• Demonstrated project management and communication skillset across 100+ organizations.
• Demonstrated capability to evaluate system-level risk and develop test strategies aligned with and approved by the customer.

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical Engineering, or related field. 8+ years of hands-on hardware design, testing, and support. Demonstrated project management and communication skillset across 100+ organizations. Demonstrated capability to evaluate system-level risk and develop test strategies aligned with and approved by the customer.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• System integration and test for electromechanical hardware and software.
• Fly vehicle test experience, first flights, rockets.
• Deep ownership mindset – reliably deliver extreme outcomes.

Benefits and Perks

• Meaningful long-term equity.
• Four (4) weeks of paid time off, ten (10) company-paid holidays.
• Comprehensive health benefits - including 100% employee-covered medical and strong dependent coverage, along with dental and vision plans.
• Paid parental leave to support growing families.
• $100 monthly fitness stipend to promote health and performance.
• Ongoing EV charging for convenience.
• Catered meals, company-covered food during high-demand periods, and a fully stocked kitchen to stay fueled throughout the day.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Benefits and Perks

• Meaningful long-term equity.
• Four (4) weeks of paid time off, ten (10) company-paid holidays.
• Comprehensive health benefits - including 100% employee-covered medical and strong dependent coverage, along with dental and vision plans.
• Paid parental leave to support growing families.
• $100 monthly fitness stipend to promote health and performance.
• Ongoing EV charging for convenience.
• Catered meals, company-covered food during high-demand periods, and a fully stocked kitchen to stay fueled throughout the day.

Affirmative Action/EEO Statement

Employment with Castelion is governed on the basis of competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.