Combustion Engineer Verified today
About the role
The Exploration Company is building propulsion systems for space transportation. You will join the Future Project division as a Combustion Engineer, responsible for designing, analyzing, and optimizing combustion devices for cryogenic rocket engines.
What you will do
- Develop global combustor fluidic systems using theory and CFD analysis
- Drive injector design and optimization against combustor requirements using theory or CFD
- Define instrumentation for hot-fire testing and support post-test data interpretation and CFD correlation
- Reduce and analyze hot-fire test data to derive performance and combustion-stability metrics, maintaining data processing tools
- Support design reviews with clear technical justification of analysis methods, assumptions, and margins
What we're looking for
- Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related discipline
- 3+ years relevant experience in combustion, propulsion, or reacting-flow engineering
- Solid foundation in bi-liquid rocket combustion processes
- Strong background in reacting-flow CFD (ANSYS, OpenFOAM, Converge) using RANS and/or LES
- Strong scripting and data-analysis ability in Python or similar
- Exposure to liquid rocket injector CFD
- Experience with combustion of cryogenic propellants
- Beneficial: familiarity with combustion instability, thermoacoustics, or uncertainty quantification
- Beneficial: experience supporting or participating in hot-fire test campaigns
How you work
- Structured and methodical approach to problem solving
- Demonstrated rigor: check reference calculations, document assumptions, treat discrepancies between prediction and test as problems to solve
- Ability to work under technical uncertainty and iterate models as test data becomes available
- Clear written and verbal communication of assumptions, methods, and conclusions
- Comfortable working in cross-disciplinary teams across thermo-mechanical, systems, and test engineering
- Strong analytical rigor and attention to detail
Why join us
- We make decisions fast while keeping goals and systems in mind
- We are transparent about risks and obstacles to cooperate and overcome them
- We work on democratising space with a rare opportunity to shape the future
Relocation assistance and visa sponsorship provided where applicable. Background check required. Offers contingent upon successful completion of background check.