Senior Propulsion Structural Engineer — Space Systems

The Exploration Company; Bordeaux; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The Exploration Company in Bordeaux is seeking a Propulsion Structural Engineer to own the structural substantiation of propulsion components from concept through qualification. You will analyze load cases, justify margins, and interface with design teams across multiple sites.

Responsibilities include supporting test campaigns, anomaly investigations, and ensuring traceability from requirements to test results, with frequent collaboration with remote teams and occasional travel to Munich.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on experience in structural analysis for launch vehicles, spacecraft or space capsules.
• Strong command of FEA tools (NASTRAN or equivalent) and hand-calculation skills.
• Experience with NASA-STD-5001, ECSS or equivalent standards and producing robust analysis reports.

Responsabilités

• Review static and dynamic load inputs, material properties, test data, and component requirements to set up structural analysis cases.
• Produce stress and fatigue analysis results with validated methodologies and justified margins.
• Assess integration of off-the-shelf equipment within the propulsion system and its qualified loads.
• Own the structural substantiation from concept through qualification with traceability to requirements, analysis, and test.
• Collaborate with design engineers to validate sizing and iterate designs.
• Support test campaigns from definition through correlation of results with predictions and provide instrumentation needs.

Connaissances

Structural analysis

FEA tools

CAD (CATIA/NX)

Test campaigns

Anomaly investigations

NASA/ECSS standards

NASTRAN

Outils

NASTRAN

CAD tools

Description du poste

The Exploration Company in Bordeaux is seeking a Propulsion Structural Engineer to own the structural substantiation of propulsion components from concept through qualification. You will analyze load cases, justify margins, and interface with design teams across multiple sites.

Responsibilities include supporting test campaigns, anomaly investigations, and ensuring traceability from requirements to test results, with frequent collaboration with remote teams and occasional travel to Munich.