Propellant Quality Control Engineer

About the role

The Propellant Quality Control Engineer will ensure the quality, consistency, and traceability of materials and processes used in solid propellant manufacturing. This hands-on role involves defining and executing quality-control activities from raw materials to finished products while working closely with engineering and production teams. The successful candidate will maintain rigorous standards for safety, documentation, and process control to support the company's orbital rocket development.

Responsibilities

• Define and perform quality-control checks for raw materials, intermediate products, and finished propellant.
• Develop and maintain inspection plans, test methods, acceptance criteria, sampling requirements, and quality records.
• Review laboratory and production data to identify trends, variation, out-of-specification results, and emerging process issues.
• Lead or support investigations into non-conformances, deviations, material issues, and unexpected test results.
• Maintain clear traceability of materials, batches, samples, equipment, results, and technical decisions.
• Work with the Lead Propellant Manager and manufacturing teams to improve process capability, measurement quality, and production consistency.

Required skills

• Propulsion
• Quality control
• Quality engineering
• Laboratory testing
• Process control
• Measurement systems
• Test methods
• Technical documentation
• Root cause analysis

Nice to have

• Solid rocket propellants
• Energetic materials
• Elastomers
• Polymers
• Statistical process control
• Python
• MATLAB

Qualifications

• Degree in chemical engineering, chemistry, materials science, mechanical engineering, or a related discipline

Benefits

• Stock options
• Relocation support
• Flights
• Shipping
• Visa support
• Daily meals
• Shared company housing

About the Company

We are a Germany-based rocketry startup currently in stealth mode, scaling up rapidly to meet the demand for high-performance, reliable, and scalable solid propulsion technologies for space and defense applications. We are already launching suborbital and ballistic rockets on a regular basis and applying our knowledge toward the development of an orbital rocket.