Combustion Engineer Verified today
The Exploration Company is developing Nyx, a modular reusable space orbital vehicle that can be refuelled in orbit and carry cargo and potentially humans. We are building cutting-edge propulsion systems to power this vehicle.
We seek a Combustion Engineer to join our Future Project division, responsible for designing, analyzing, and optimizing combustion devices for cryogenic rocket engines.
Key Responsibilities
- Support combustor fluidic system development using theory and CFD
- Drive and contribute to injector design and optimization against combustor requirements using theory and CFD
- Support instrumentation definition for hot-fire testing and assist with post-test data interpretation and CFD/model correlation
- Reduce and analyse hot-fire test data to derive performance and combustion-stability metrics, and maintain associated data processing tools
- Support design reviews with clear technical justification of analysis methods, assumptions, and margins
Requirements
- Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related discipline
- 3+ years of relevant experience in combustion, propulsion, or reacting-flow engineering
- Solid foundation in bi-liquid rocket combustion processes
- Strong background in reacting-flow CFD (e.g. 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
- Familiarity with combustion instability, thermoacoustics, or uncertainty quantification is beneficial
- Experience supporting or participating in hot-fire test campaigns is beneficial
Skills and Behaviours
- Structured and methodical approach to problem solving
- Demonstrated rigour: checks reference calculations, documents assumptions, and treats 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
- Comfort working in cross-disciplinary teams across thermo-mechanical, systems, and test engineering
- Strong analytical rigor and attention to detail
Relocation assistance and visa sponsorship are available where applicable. All offers are contingent upon successful completion of a background check.