Propulsion Components Engineer for Cryogenic Engines

The Exploration Company; Bordeaux; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Exploration Company is seeking a Propulsion Engineer - Components to lead the technical follow-up of secondary components for a cryogenic rocket engine. You will coordinate with systems engineering, propulsion subsystems, and suppliers to ensure mature, tested, qualified parts ready for development and operations.

You will drive design-for-manufacture, define technical baselines, and manage test campaigns and supplier evidence, while coordinating risk management and interface constraints

Qualifications

• Engineering background in aerospace, mechanical, propulsion, fluids, electrical, instrumentation, or a related discipline.
• Experience designing and developing hardware, including CAD, drawings, design reviews, manufacturing, assembly, integration, materials, tolerances, and applicable standards.
• Experience managing the technical follow-up of suppliers and manufacturing partners through development, testing, qualification, delivery, integration, and anomaly resolution.
• Practical knowledge of component requirements, interfaces, verification, qualification, acceptance testing, failure modes, root-cause investigation, and test campaigns.
• Experience supporting AIT or equivalent integration and test activities, and assess robustness of designs, manufacturing processes, test approaches, and supplier evidence.
• Familiarity with applicable component standards, design practices, drawings, tolerances, materials, manufacturing processes, and aerospace or industrial standards.
• Ability to work across disciplines, own technical topics, and communicate with engineering, procurement, quality, MAIT/AIT, test, program, suppliers, and operations.
• Fluency in English; French and/or German advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical follow-up of assigned components during the whole steps from concept to qualification.
• Provide hands-on technical support for component design and industrialization, including trade-offs, interface definition, CAD and drawing reviews, design-for-manufacture and assembly, and resolution of technical issues during build and integration.
• Define and maintain the technical baseline for each component, including requirements, interfaces, standards, verification approach, acceptance criteria, configuration, and open technical points.
• Maintain a system-level view of component interfaces and constraints, including mechanical, fluidic, thermal, electrical, command, sensing, cleanliness, materials compatibility, safety, operations, and integration aspects.
• Define and drive development, qualification, acceptance, and integration test strategies, including test objectives, setups, instrumentation, procedures, readiness reviews, execution, data analysis, and closure of findings.
• Review test results and supplier evidence to confirm performance, robustness, lifetime, environmental, interface, safety, production-repeatability, and other applicable requirements are met.
• Define and review relevant test campaigns, including functional performance, leakage, pressure and flow behavior, response time, actuation, thermal and vibration environments, EMC, cleanliness, lifecycle performance, fault conditions, and production repeatability.
• Lead the technical interface with suppliers, manufacturing partners, special-process providers, and test houses, including review of deliverables, drawings, analyses, procedures, inspection evidence, deviations, non-conformances, and test packages.
• Identify, communicate, and manage technical risks, anomalies, and corrective actions, including performance shortfalls, leakage, response issues, cleanliness and materials concerns, lifetime limitations, weak evidence, production variability, delivery risks, and integration constraints.
• Support Engine MAIT/AIT, integration, testing, and operations preparation, including readiness reviews, setup and instrumentation reviews, procedure reviews, test execution, troubleshooting, data assessment, recovery or retest decisions, and the capture of component limitations, monitoring needs, failure responses, and operational constraints.

Skills

Supplier management

Systems engineering

Design for manufacturability

Engineering judgment

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering

Tools

CAD

DFMEA

Job description

The Exploration Company is seeking a Propulsion Engineer - Components to lead the technical follow-up of secondary components for a cryogenic rocket engine. You will coordinate with systems engineering, propulsion subsystems, and suppliers to ensure mature, tested, qualified parts ready for development and operations.

You will drive design-for-manufacture, define technical baselines, and manage test campaigns and supplier evidence, while coordinating risk management and interface constraints