Thrust Chamber Assembly Engineer (m/f/d)

The role

You will design and analyse thrust chamber assemblies including injector heads, combustion chambers and nozzles. You will plan and evaluate tests and work with production to ensure designs are manufacturable at scale.

What you will do

• Design injector heads and injector elements, combustion chambers and nozzles.
• Perform trade off studies and plan the technical roadmap for thrust chamber assemblies of pump fed, liquid propellant engines.
• Create thrust chamber subcomponent models and validate them against test data.
• Perform detailed injection, combustion and cooling CFD studies to assess injector and cooling channel designs.
• Plan and execute subcomponent and integrated engine test campaigns, and analyse the data gathered.
• Work with the production teams to keep designs manufacturable, fast and affordable at scale.

Required qualifications

• MSc in mechanical or aerospace engineering, or a comparable technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum of 4-5 years designing liquid rocket engine components.
• Excellent understanding of fluid dynamics, thermodynamics and combustion physics.
• Significant experience conducting reacting CFD of injectors and combustion chambers.
• Experience with gas/gas or gas/liquid injectors in high-pressure rocket combustors.
• Experience analysing test data from rocket combustors or comparable hardware.
• Proficiency in Python, MATLAB or a comparable programming language, and in 3D CAD.
• Fluent in English.
• Willingness to travel occasionally for test and launch operations.

Nice to have

• Experience planning and organising test campaigns together with several other parties.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing techniques such as additive manufacturing, CNC machining, brazing, welding or casting.

Benefits

• Employee Participation Program: virtual company share program
• 30 days of vacation
• Company pension plan with 20% employer contribution after the probation period
• Subsidised lunch
• Fully financed Deutschlandticket
• Rental clothing with laundry service
• Sponsored sports club memberships (EGYM Wellpass)
• Individual learning budget granted after the probation period
• Childcare allowance

Before you apply

• Due to security clearance requirements, affiliations with countries listed under § 13 para. 1 no. 17 SÜG may affect the application process.

About the company

Isar Aerospace is a fast-growing company aiming to provide sustainable and environmentally friendly launch solutions for small and medium-sized satellites and constellations into Low Earth Orbit. They are building a modern space business to enable faster, better and cheaper access to space.