Mechanical Engineer/Designer (E1 Engine)

Canada Rocket Company; Toronto; On-site; CAD 75,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Canada Rocket Company is seeking a Mechanical Engineer/Designer to own the mechanical hardware for the E1 Engine, translating system requirements into robust, flight‑ready designs and guiding them from concept through test and flight. You will work across structures, avionics, fluids, and propulsion in CAD, analysis, manufacturing discussions, and test execution.

You will package hardware for tight vehicle environments, partner with cross‑functional teams, and contribute to DFM/DFMA decisions,

Qualifications

• Experience in mechanical design and development for aerospace or similarly demanding hardware.
• Strong ownership of mechanical components from concept through design, build, test, and deployment.
• Proficiency in CAD and drawing creation for manufacturable hardware definitions.
• Solid fundamentals in statics, strength of materials, tolerance stack‑ups, fits, and practical hardware design.
• Ability to perform engineering analyses using first principles and FEM/FEA tools, with good judgment on depth of analysis.
• Experience integrating mechanical hardware with adjacent systems across disciplines.
• Knowledge of MM manufacturing processes, producibility, cost, quality, and scheduling.
• Ability to work in a fast, cross‑functional hardware development environment.
• Excellent communication across design, analysis, manufacturing, and integration boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and development of mechanical hardware and assemblies for the E1 Engine and variants.
• Manage mechanical systems from concept through design, supplier discussions, manufacturing, testing, and flight integration.
• Translate requirements into mechanical concepts and release hardware meeting functional, structural, thermal, and reliability targets.
• Develop CAD models, drawings, interfaces, and release packages for prototype to flight configurations.
• Perform hand calculations and FEM/FEA analyses for strength, stiffness, thermal effects, and tolerances.
• Package and integrate hardware within tight vehicle environments balancing accessibility and mass.
• Collaborate with structures, avionics, propulsion, fluids, manufacturing, and test teams to ensure cohesive designs.
• Support design‑for‑manufacture and design‑for‑assembly decisions, considering manufacturing interfaces.

Skills

CAD proficiency

Mechanical design

Cross‑disciplinary collaboration

GD&T knowledge

Structures integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

P. Eng license

Tools

FEM/FEA tools

Job description

Mechanical Engineer/Designer (E1 Engine)

About this position

About Canada Rocket Company

Canada Rocket Company is developing Canada's first medium-lift launch vehicle.

We are a team of veterans from SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, ArianeGroup, Pangea Propulsion, Tesla, MDA, and more, bringing over a century of combined launch and space systems experience back to Canada.

Our mission is to provide reliable, independent access to space for Canada and its allies in a rapidly expanding global market.

Our approach is defined by pragmatic engineering:

• We utilize a single 750 kN engine that scales from light- to medium-lift via engine clustering.
• We lean on simple, proven technologies to reach orbit faster, avoiding the pitfalls of complex or novel designs.
• We test early and often, catching problems on the bench instead of at the pad.

Backed by $20M in funding secured within our first four months, including the largest all-Canadian seed round in the sector and an $8.3M Department of National Defence grant, we are moving with the speed and institutional backing required to meet Canada’s orbital launch needs.

About the role

Canada Rocket Company is building a sovereign launch capability for Canada. We're looking for a Mechanical Engineer / Mechanical Design Specialist to support the design, development, and integration E1 Engine, the heart of our vehicle. This role is focused on real hardware ownership: translating system requirements into robust, manufacturable, flight‑ready mechanical designs and driving them from early concept through test and flight.

You will work across structures, avionics, fluids, and propulsion to develop hardware ranging that supports the engines. This is a highly cross‑functional role for an engineer who is equally comfortable in CAD, engineering analysis, manufacturing discussions, and test execution. If you want to solve practical, multidisciplinary design problems and help turn an integrated launch vehicle into real hardware, this is the role.

What you'll do

• Own the design and development of mechanical hardware and integrated assemblies supporting the E1 Engine and its variants.
• Own and be accountable for mechanical systems from concept through design, supplier discussion, manufacturing, test, iteration, and flight integration.
• Translate requirements into mechanical concepts, detailed designs, and released hardware that meet functional, structural, thermal, packaging, manufacturability, and reliability targets.
• Develop CAD models, detailed drawings, interface definitions, and release packages for hardware spanning prototype, development, qualification, and flight configurations.
• Perform engineering analyses appropriate to the hardware, including hand calculations and FEA‑supported assessments related to strength, stiffness, vibration, thermal effects, tolerance stack-up, fit‑up, and functional performance.
• Drive packaging and integration of mechanical hardware within tight vehicle environments, balancing accessibility, maintainability, assembly flow, mass, and interface constraints.
• Partner closely with structures, avionics, propulsion, fluids, manufacturing, integration, and test teams to ensure designs are practical, well integrated, and executable.
• Support design‑for‑manufacture and design‑for‑assembly decisions, with a strong understanding of manufacturing and assembly processes, and relevant interfaces.

Qualifications

Required

• Experience in mechanical design and development for aerospace, automotive, or similarly demanding hardware environments; expectations will scale with level.
• Strong experience owning mechanical components or assemblies from concept through detailed design, manufacturing, build, test, and deployment.
• Proficiency in CAD and mechanical drawing creation, with the ability to generate clear, manufacturable, and well‑controlled hardware definitions.
• Strong engineering fundamentals, including statics, strength of materials, basic structural mechanics, tolerance stack‑ups, fits, joints, and practical design for real hardware.
• Ability to perform and interpret engineering analyses using a combination of first‑principles calculations and FEM/FEA tools, with sound judgment on the level of analysis appropriate to the problem.
• Experience working across disciplines to integrate mechanical hardware with adjacent systems.
• Experience with tolerance analysis, stack‑up management, GD&T, interface control, and assembly alignment in tightly constrained hardware environments.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and how design decisions affect producibility, cost, quality, schedule, assembly, and inspection.
• Ability to operate with ownership in a fast‑paced, cross‑functional hardware development environment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, especially across design, analysis, manufacturing, and integration boundaries.

Preferred

• Direct experience designing aerospace vehicle hardware, propulsion support hardware, fluid system hardware, avionics mechanical packaging, or other highly integrated electromechanical or mechanical systems.
• Experience with routed systems and hardware such as pneumatic lines, tubes, fittings, valves, manifolds, brackets, actuator mounts, reservoirs, and pressure‑containing assemblies.
• Hands‑on experience with machining, sheet metal, welded assemblies, bent tube design, machined manifolds, additive manufacturing, composites, or other relevant aerospace fabrication methods.
• Familiarity with rapid design‑build‑test hardware development environments.
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a related field.

*note: To hold the title of Engineer, and take responsibility for designs that impact public safety, candidates are required to hold a current P.Eng License, in good standing.