Mission Overview At AlgoForge Aerospace, we are discarding the thermodynamic limits of legacy propulsion. As a Combustion Devices Engineer, you will own the design, development, and hot-fire qualification of the VORTEX-1 Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE). You are not just building another rocket engine; you are harnessing continuous supersonic detonation waves to fundamentally rewrite the cost-to-orbit equation. You will work at the bleeding edge of physics, pushing additively manufactured copper alloys to their thermal limits. Operational Objectives Own the cradle-to-grave design lifecycle of the VORTEX-1 annular combustion chamber and complex coaxial injector topologies. Drive high-fidelity CFD simulations to characterize detonation wave propagation, acoustic instabilities, and shock-boundary layer interactions. Develop advanced regenerative cooling architectures utilizing additively manufactured copper alloys (e.g., GRCop-42) to survive extreme >100 MW/m² heat fluxes. Architect and execute aggressive hot-fire testing campaigns to validate C
* efficiency, specific impulse (Isp), and thermal margins.
Collaborate tightly with the turbomachinery and fluid systems teams to optimize propellant feed pressures and system-level performance. Mission Prerequisites BS/MS/PhD in Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, or Physics with a deep focus on reacting flows and thermodynamics. Demonstrated history of building and testing physical hardware—we want engineers who have bent metal and lit fires. Expert-level understanding of compressible flow, shockwave dynamics, and high-frequency combustion instability. Proficiency in advanced CFD platforms (ANSYS, OpenFOAM) and CAD/FEA software (NX, SolidWorks, ANSYS Mechanical). Direct experience with cryogenic bipropellant systems (Liquid Oxygen / Liquid Methane heavily preferred). — Deployment Perks — Extreme Ownership Cradle-to-grave responsibility for critical flight hardware. Rapid Iteration Move from CAD to hot-fire in weeks, not years. Compute Power Unrestricted access to supercomputing clusters for CFD. Elite Roster Work alongside veterans from top-tier aerospace programs.