Thruster CAD and Stress Analyst

In your capacity as a CAD & Stress Analyst, you will be responsible for the on-time and on-cost design and structural justification of propulsion hardware, with the TCA as your primary scope.

Your role will be continuously evolving, but day-to-day responsibilities will include:

During the Design Phase:

• Design the thrust chamber & injector propulsion hardware in CAD, from concept layout through to detailed design.
• Perform stress analysis (hand calculations and FEA) on designed parts to substantiate margins of safety under mechanical, thermal and pressure loads.
• Select materials and define manufacturing processes in coordination with manufacturing engineering, accounting for structural, thermal and producibility constraints.
• Work closely with propulsion, thermal and fluidic system engineers to translate functional requirements into part-level design and load cases.
• Establish and maintain interface definitions, drawings and part datasets, ensuring configuration control and traceability.
• Conduct trade studies on design options (geometry, material, manufacturing route) and justify design decisions with analysis.
• Elaborate and maintain structural analysis reports supporting design reviews and qualification.
• Support the definition of test requirements needed to validate analytical models and structural assumptions.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation of design choices and trade-offs, to a high standard, capturing analysis methods and results as to serve as reference justification for the design.

During Manufacturing, Assembly and Test Phase:

• Support manufacturing and inspection of parts, resolving design or tolerance issues as they arise.
• Support root-cause investigations of any structural anomaly or test finding, correlating analysis with hardware behaviour.
• Update and correlate stress models and analyses based on test and inspection results.
• Support design iterations and upgrades based on test campaign outcomes.