Engine Thrust Chamber Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Parsdorf, Bavaria, Germany; on-site work with occasional travel for test and launch operations

Company

hirify.global develops launch vehicles for small and medium-sized satellites and constellations in Low Earth Orbit.

What you will do

• Design injector heads and elements, combustion chambers, and nozzles for pump-fed liquid-propellant engines.
• Perform trade-off studies and define the technical roadmap for thrust chamber assemblies.
• Create and validate subcomponent models using test data.
• Conduct injection, combustion, and cooling CFD studies for injector and cooling-channel designs.
• Plan, execute, and analyse subcomponent and integrated engine test campaigns.
• Collaborate with production teams to ensure designs are manufacturable, fast to produce, and scalable.

Requirements

• MSc in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a comparable technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Several years of experience designing liquid rocket engine components.
• Strong knowledge of fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, and combustion physics.
• Significant experience with reacting CFD for injectors and combustion chambers, including gas/gas or gas/liquid injectors in high-pressure rocket combustors.
• Experience analysing test data from rocket combustors or comparable hardware.
• Proficiency in Python, MATLAB, or a comparable programming language, and in 3D CAD; fluent English is required.

Nice to have

• Experience planning and organising test campaigns with multiple stakeholders.
• Knowledge of additive manufacturing, CNC machining, brazing, welding, or casting.
• Experience correlating models against hot-fire test data.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast design, build, and test cycles in a space-technology environment.
• Virtual company share program.
• 30 days of vacation and a company pension plan with a 20% employer contribution after the probation period.
• Subsidised lunches, a fully financed Deutschlandticket, and rental workwear with laundry service.
• Sponsored sports club membership, an individual learning budget after the probation period, and childcare allowance.