Combustion Engineer

Combustion Engineer

The Exploration Company

Bordeaux, France

We are seeking a talented Combustion Engineer to join our Future Project division. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for contributing to designing, analyzing, and optimizing combustion devices for cryogenic rocket engines.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide support to global combustor fluidic system development through application of both theory and/or CFD;
• Drive and/or contribute to injector design and optimisation against combustor requirements and design intent using theory and/or CFD;
• Support definition of instrumentation 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.

What we would love to see from you

• Minimum of a Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline;
• 3+ years of relevant/equivalent 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 a discrepancy between prediction and test as a problem to be solved rather than dismissed;
• 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;
• Demonstrates behaviors consistent with The Exploration Company's core values of Mission, Vision, Integrity, Excellence, and Teamwork.