Senior Composite Engineer

About the role

The Exploration Company is seeking a Senior Composite Engineer to support the development, verification, and qualification of primary and secondary composite structures for space applications. The role involves defining robust technical solutions, assessing structural integrity, and supporting manufacturing activities to deliver high-reliability flight hardware. The successful candidate will manage the complete lifecycle of structural hardware development while balancing technical excellence with project constraints.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, verification, and qualification of composite structural hardware for space applications.
• Define structural concepts and perform design trade-offs considering reliability, mass, manufacturability, schedule, and cost.
• Develop technical specifications covering structural requirements, materials, manufacturing processes, inspection, and verification activities.
• Support the selection of materials, manufacturing processes, laminate architectures, and structural interfaces.
• Identify and assess critical failure modes throughout the product lifecycle and ensure appropriate mitigation measures are implemented.
• Support supplier management activities, including technical oversight of build-to-print and build-to-specification hardware.
• Review supplier analyses, manufacturing documentation, inspection reports, test reports, and non-conformance dispositions.
• Support anomaly investigations, root cause analyses, and corrective action implementation.

Required skills

• Composite materials
• Structural mechanics
• Structural analysis
• Finite element modelling
• FEA
• Damage tolerance
• Bolted joints
• Bonded joints

Nice to have

• Altair suite
• Nastran
• Siemens NX
• German
• French
• Italian

Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Materials Engineering, or a related discipline

Benefits

• Relocation assistance
• Visa sponsorship

About the Company

The Exploration Company is building spacecrafts for humanity and is committed to democratising space. The company operates with an agile, open, and collaborative culture focused on mission, integrity, excellence, vision, and teamwork.