Advanced Requirements and Verification Engineer

Our Mission

At Vertical Aerospace, we are pioneering the way for electric aviation. The Valo, our eVTOL (electric, vertical, take-off and landing), 'zero emissions' aircraft will set a new safety standard for how we will navigate the sky.

We won't realise our mission following the same legacy processes and traditions our predecessors followed, instead, we want to 'redefine' aerospace best practices. We are growing quickly from a prototype business to a scaling SME, and the next few years will be critical to our success and delivering on our ambitious goals. Valo is targeting airliner-level safety certification in 2028 ahead of entering service with our airline and operator customers.

What to Expect
As a Requirements and Verification Engineer for Propellers, you’ll be instrumental in linking our technical design to safety and certification outcomes.

Working at the heart of a multidisciplinary team, you’ll define and manage system-level requirements, develop robust verification plans, and ensure evidence is traceable and complete. This role brings technical depth and broad collaboration - touching everything from safety assessments to testing at our Kemble site.

What You’ll Do

• Capture, define, and decompose system and component-level requirements for the propeller system from vehicle-level and regulatory sources

• Ensure all requirements are verifiable, validated, traceable, and kept current in our requirements management tools

• Develop and maintain the verification plan, linking each verification activity back to specific requirements

• Translate verification strategies into executable tests and analyses in collaboration with the test and design teams

• Collate, author, and review verification evidence to support certification submissions, ensuring completeness and clarity

• Identify and resolve gaps in compliance evidence, proactively ensuring all expected system behaviours are captured

• Own and coordinate system-wide technical challenges including propeller balancing, critical parts control, loads interaction, and cross-disciplinary performance impacts

• Support Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEA), and System Safety Assessments with the safety team

• Work closely with engineering teams across aerodynamics, loads, safety, structures, and test to manage interactions and technical integration

• Attend and support testing at Kemble and other sites, ensuring test outcomes align with verification needs and certification objectives

• Communicate technical issues, status, and verification strategy clearly across internal and external reviews

What You’ll Bring

• A degree in aerospace, mechanical engineering, or a related discipline

• Experience in systems engineering, particularly in requirements management and verification planning

• Familiarity with requirements tools and traceability best practices

• Strong ability to integrate inputs across multiple technical domains and manage system-level attributes

• Understanding of the V-model approach to verification

• Awareness of airworthiness and certification frameworks; experience with CS-P or similar standards is highly desirable

• Analytical and detail-oriented mindset with a structured approach to problem-solving

• Confident communicator who can operate across engineering disciplines

• Comfortable being onsite in Bristol 3 days per week and supporting tests in Kemble as required

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What can you expect from us?

We're on a mission. Where others see limits, we see opportunity, and we work at pace. Working at Vertical isn't your average role but for those seeking a challenge, a flexible, supportive organisation and an incredible team; working here is an opportunity to do the best work of your career.

Our approach promotes ingenuity and courage, while our environment builds success through diligence in safety and being open in the way we work. The only way we're going to assure the next chapter of aviation history is by working as a team, relentlessly, towards our goal. 

Our benefits

Our people matter - we're not going anywhere without them. Which is why our company benefits go beyond the essentials.

• 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

We may just be the hardest job you've ever had, but we're confident it will be the most rewarding. Join the team today and help us shape the future of Advanced Air Mobility.

Disclaimer Statement

We encourage you to apply even if you may not have all the experience listed in the advert. We recognise that talent comes in various forms and we are committed to providing opportunities that create an environment of growth, diversity, and inclusion for everyone. As part of our desire to review and make our processes fair, we may ask you questions related to these aspects during the application process. For more information on how we will use your data, see our Legal section.