About the roleCanada Rocket Company is building a sovereign launch capability for Canada. We're looking for a structure analyst who is equally proficient in performing first order calculations as they are in running FEA, or developing their own analysis code. You will work across design, analysis, development, operation, and reuse scenarios in a fast-moving development environment. This is a highly technical role for someone who wants to be close to details, make consequential design decisions, and help establish the propulsion and stage fluids systems of an orbital launch vehicle program from the ground up.
What you'll do- Perform structural analysis of propulsion and stage fluid components including combustion chambers, nozzles, turbopumps, injectors, feed lines, and components
- Define load cases and environments based on steady state and transient engine operations, system pressures, thermal conditions, vibration, acoustic, and aerodynamics
- Develop and run finite element models (FEM) to evaluate stress, strain, deflection, buckling, and modal response under static, dynamic, and thermal loading conditions
- Assess fatigue, fracture, and creep life for components subjected to cyclic and high-temperature loading, supporting durability and reusability requirements
- Generate margins of safety against yield, ultimate, and stability failure modes, and document findings in formal stress reports
- Support design trades and provide analysis-driven recommendations to improve weight, manufacturability, and structural robustness
- Create and maintain analysis methods, tools, and scripts
- Correlate analytical models with hot-fire, proof, vibration, and component-level test data, and refine models accordingly
- Develop and apply material allowables, including for additively manufactured and high-temperature alloys common in propulsion hardware
- Contribute to anomaly investigations and root-cause analysis when hardware behaves unexpectedly in test or flight
QualificationsRequired - 7+ years of experience with one or more of the following:
- Structural analysis using Ansys Mechanical
- Experience with cryogenic fluids
- Inclination toward a fast-paced, resource-constrained environment with rapid hardware development using iterative design-build-test cycles that are central to the engineering culture
Preferred - Thermal analysis proficiency
- Fluid analysis proficiency
- Experience with liquid bipropellant rocket engines
- Experience with methane systems
- Exposure to complex fluid systems as well as understanding the behaviour of the mechanisms in those systems
- Functional proficiency in Visio, CAD, and Python.
