Warhead Design Engineer

Location: Paris (on-site)️ Sector: Next-gen European Defense Type: Full-time, Permanent Seniority: Senior (5y+) Compensation: Competitive Salary + Equity + Full Health Coverage

About EGIDE

EGIDE is building a new European defense leader focused on scalable, intelligent air-defense architectures. We develop mass-use interceptors designed to neutralize low-cost, high-volume threats such as Shahed-type loitering munitions and FPV drones. Our systems combine missile-grade lethality with modern software-defined architectures and electrically propelled interceptors, enabling a new class of cost-effective and rapidly deployable air defense solutions. We are assembling a world-class engineering team to design, test, and industrialize these systems at pace.

About The Role

As a Warhead Design Engineer, you will own the design and development of the full lethal chain of our electric interceptor. You will work across the complete lifecycle: from pre-dimensioning and architecture definition, to simulation, testing, validation, and industrialization - including live explosive test campaigns. You will be responsible for ensuring that the interceptor achieves effective neutralization of Shahed-class targets under strict system constraints (mass, volume, safety, cost).

What You’ll Do

• Design and dimension the full lethal chain: explosive charge, initiation chain, safety & arming device (S&A), proximity fuze, and safety logic

• Perform analytical and numerical pre-sizing of warhead architectures based on mission scenarios and target sets

• Develop and optimize lethality (blast, fragmentation, terminal effects) against representative aerial threats

• Define and manage technical specifications at system and subsystem levels

• Produce and maintain full engineering documentation:

  • Technical Specifications (system and subsystem levels)

  • Design Documentation Package

  • Product Definition File / Technical Data Package (TDP)

  • Interface Control Documents (ICDs): mechanical/physical, pyrotechnic, functional, electrical

  • Performance Assessment Report (lethality, safety, reliability)

• Lead or coordinate design activities internally and with subcontractors

• Run and supervise simulations in fast dynamics (blast, fragmentation, impact) using tools such as Radioss, LS-Dyna, Impetus or equivalent

• Define, plan, and execute experimental campaigns: arena tests, functional tests, safety validation

• Analyze test data (ground and flight) and iterate on design

• Ensure integration with propulsion, avionics, and guidance teams

• Drive industrialization: design for manufacturability, supplier interaction, transition to production

• Contribute to safety analysis (FMEA, risk analysis, safety logic validation) and compliance

You Are a Fit If You Have

• Engineering degree with specialization in detonics, energetics, or explosive engineering

• 5+ years experience, including at least 3 years in military warhead or energetic systems design

• Strong mastery of analytical and theoretical methods for warhead sizing (blast, fragmentation, lethality models)

• Hands-on experience with at least one simulation tool: Radioss, LS-Dyna, Impetus, Speed

• Experience writing structured engineering documentation (specifications, test procedures, design dossiers, TDPs, ICDs)

• Solid understanding of full lethal chain: energetic materials, initiation systems, S&A mechanisms

• Experience in test environments (data acquisition, analysis, experimental campaigns)

• Strong system engineering mindset and ability to work across multidisciplinary interfaces

Nice To Have

• Experience with liner-based charges (shaped charge, CGN)

• Experience with proximity fuzes or advanced initiation systems

• Experience with explosive testing (arena tests, instrumented trials)

• Familiarity with industrialization and production scaling of munitions

• Exposure to safety standards and ordnance qualification processes

Why Join EGIDE?

• Build next-generation air defense systems addressing real-world high-intensity threats

• Work on complete weapon systems, from physics to field deployment

• Competitive salary + meaningful equity

• 100% health coverage

• High-autonomy, engineering-driven culture

• Direct impact on system performance and operational capability

Ready to Join?

If you want to work on cutting-edge defense systems, contribute to European strategic autonomy, and operate in a fast-paced, hardware-driven environment, we’d love to talk.

Recruitment Process

• First phone screen

• Deep dive

• Case study

• On-site final meeting