Role: Combustion Devices Engineer

Tame the fire. Design the thrust chamber. Ignite the future. Engineering at the edge of detonation physics.

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 Benefits —

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.

Position Intelligence

Department

Propulsion Engineering

Location

Bengaluru, India

Openings

1 Position Available

Physics

Detonation Wave

Component

Thrust Chamber

Clearance: Proprietary

Mission Parameters

Hardware First

Work on real propulsion hardware, not just slide decks or concept art.

Elite Team

Small, highly technical unit with direct ownership of critical systems.

High Impact

Your decisions materially shape the vehicle architecture and company trajectory.

No Hype

Focused purely on physics, testing, and execution. We build, we launch.

Candidate Application

Applying for: Combustion Devices Engineer