Combustion Devices Engineer (RDE)

AlgoForge Aerospace; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extreme Ownership

Cradle-to-grave responsibility

Rapid Iteration

Compute Power

Elite Roster

Job summary

AlgoForge Aerospace in Bengaluru seeks a Combustion Devices Engineer to own the design, development, and hot-fire qualification of the VORTEX-1 Rotating Detonation Engine. You will push the frontiers of reacting flows and thermodynamics with advanced CFD and additive cooling concepts.

Expect to drive high-fidelity simulations, develop regenerative cooling in copper alloys, and orchestrate rapid hot-fire campaigns while collaborating with turbomachinery and fluid systems teams to optimize

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, or Physics with a focus on reacting flows and thermodynamics.
• Demonstrated history of building and testing hardware for propulsion systems.
• Expert understanding of compressible flow, shockwave dynamics, and combustion instability.

Responsibilities

• Own cradle-to-grave design lifecycle of VORTEX-1 annular chamber and injector topologies.
• Drive high-fidelity CFD simulations to characterize detonation and instability.
• Develop regenerative cooling using copper alloys to survive extreme heat fluxes.
• Lead hot-fire testing campaigns to validate efficiency and thermal margins.

Skills

ANSYS

OpenFOAM

Shockwave dynamics

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering/Physics

Tools

NX

SolidWorks

ANSYS Mechanical

Job description

Mission Overview

At AlgoForge Aerospace, we are discarding the thermodynamic limits of legacy propulsion. As a Combustion Devices Engineer, you will own the design, development, and hot-fire qualification of the VORTEX-1 Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE). You are not just building another rocket engine; you are harnessing continuous supersonic detonation waves to fundamentally rewrite the cost-to-orbit equation. You will work at the bleeding edge of physics, pushing additively manufactured copper alloys to their thermal limits.

Operational Objectives

• Own the cradle-to-grave design lifecycle of the VORTEX-1 annular combustion chamber and complex coaxial injector topologies.
• Drive high-fidelity CFD simulations to characterize detonation wave propagation, acoustic instabilities, and shock-boundary layer interactions.
• Develop advanced regenerative cooling architectures utilizing additively manufactured copper alloys (e.g., GRCop-42) to survive extreme >100 MW/m² heat fluxes.
• Architect and execute aggressive hot-fire testing campaigns to validate C* efficiency, specific impulse (Isp), and thermal margins.
• Collaborate tightly with the turbomachinery and fluid systems teams to optimize propellant feed pressures and system-level performance.

Mission Prerequisites

BS/MS/PhD in Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, or Physics with a deep focus on reacting flows and thermodynamics.

• Demonstrated history of building and testing physical hardware—we want engineers who have bent metal and lit fires.
• Expert-level understanding of compressible flow, shockwave dynamics, and high-frequency combustion instability.
• Proficiency in advanced CFD platforms (ANSYS, OpenFOAM) and CAD/FEA software (NX, SolidWorks, ANSYS Mechanical).
• Direct experience with cryogenic bipropellant systems (Liquid Oxygen / Liquid Methane heavily preferred).

Deployment Benefits

• Extreme Ownership
• Cradle-to-grave responsibility for critical flight hardware.
• Rapid Iteration
• Move from CAD to hot-fire in weeks, not years.
• Compute Power
• Unrestricted access to supercomputing clusters for CFD.
• Elite Roster
• Work alongside veterans from top-tier aerospace programs.