Mechanical Engineer/Designer (Structures)

Job summary

You will lead the design and development of structural vehicle hardware, including tanks and interstages, from initial concept through to flight integration. This role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure designs meet structural, thermal, and manufacturability requirements.

Job details

About the role Canada Rocket Company is building a sovereign launch capability for Canada. We're looking for a Mechanical Engineer / Mechanical Design Specialist to support the design and development of vehicle structures. You will work across structures, fluids, and propulsion to design the load bearing and pressure-holding systems make up the airframe of the vehicle. This is a highly cross-functional role for an engineer who is equally comfortable in CAD, engineering analysis, manufacturing discussions, and test execution. If you want to solve practical, multidisciplinary design problems and help turn an integrated launch vehicle into real hardware, this is the role. What you'll do Support the design and development of structural hardware such as tanks, interstages, and integrated assemblies across the vehicle. Own and be accountable for structural systems from concept through, design, supplier discussion, manufacturing, test, iteration, and flight integration. Translate requirements into mechanical concepts, detailed designs, and released hardware that meet functional, structural, thermal, packaging, manufacturability, and reliability targets. Develop CAD models, detailed drawings, interface definitions, and release packages for hardware spanning prototype, development, qualification, and flight configurations. Perform engineering analyses appropriate to the hardware, including hand calculations and FEA-supported assessments related to strength, stiffness, vibration, thermal effects, tolerance stack-up, fit-up, and functional performance. Drive packaging and integration of structural hardware within tight vehicle environments, balancing accessibility, maintainability, assembly flow, mass, and interface constraints. Partner closely with avionics, propulsion, fluids, manufacturing, integration, and test teams to ensure designs are practical, well integrated, and executable. Support design-for-manufacture and design-for-assembly decisions, with a strong understanding of manufacturing and assembly processes, and relevant interfaces. Qualifications Required Experience in mechanical design and development for aerospace, automotive, or similarly demanding hardware environments; expectations will scale with level. Strong experience owning mechanical components or assemblies from concept through detailed design, manufacturing, build, test, and deployment. Proficiency in CAD and mechanical drawing creation, with the ability to generate clear, manufacturable, and well-controlled hardware definitions. Strong engineering fundamentals, including statics, strength of materials, basic structural mechanics, tolerance stack-ups, fits, joints, and practical design for real hardware. Ability to perform and interpret engineering analyses using a combination of first-principles calculations and FEM/FEA tools, with sound judgment on the level of analysis appropriate to the problem. Experience working across disciplines to integrate mechanical hardware with adjacent systems. Experience with tolerance analysis, stack-up management, GD&T, interface control, and assembly alignment in tightly constrained hardware environments. Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and how design decisions affect producibility, cost, quality, schedule, assembly, and inspection. Ability to operate with ownership in a fast-paced, cross-functional hardware development environment. Excellent communication and collaboration skills, especially across design, analysis, manufacturing, and integration boundaries. Preferred Direct experience designing aerospace vehicle hardware, propulsion support hardware, fluid system hardware, avionics mechanical packaging, or other highly integrated electromechanical or mechanical systems. Experience with routed systems and hardware such as pneumatic lines, tubes, fittings, valves, manifolds, brackets, actuator mounts, reservoirs, and pressure-containing assemblies. Hands-on experience with machining, sheet metal, welded assemblies, bent tube design, machined manifolds, additive manufacturing, composites, or other relevant aerospace fabrication methods. Familiarity with rapid design-build-test hardware development environments. Bachelor's or advanced degree in mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a related field. *note: To hold the title of Engineer, and take responsibility for designs that impact public safety, candidates are required to hold a current P.Eng License, in good standing.

What you’ll do

You will lead the design and development of structural vehicle hardware, including tanks and interstages, from initial concept through to flight integration. This role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure designs meet structural, thermal, and manufacturability requirements.

Requirements

Candidates must have strong experience in mechanical design for aerospace or similar hardware environments, including proficiency in CAD and engineering analysis. A Bachelor's or advanced degree in mechanical or manufacturing engineering is required, and a P.Eng license is necessary for design responsibility.

Listed skills

• Engineering Analysis · Preferred
• Control · Preferred
• Packaging · Preferred
• analysis · Preferred
• Collaboration · Preferred
• materials · Preferred
• Teams · Preferred
• iteration · Preferred
• management · Preferred
• Communication · Preferred
• Development · Preferred
• Integration · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Mechanical Design
• CAD
• FEA
• Structural Analysis
• Manufacturing Processes
• GD&T
• Tolerance Analysis
• Aerospace Engineering
• Hardware Development
• Statics
• Strength Of Materials
• Design For Manufacture
• Design For Assembly
• Interface Control
• Engineering Analysis
• Technical Communication
• Field Notes
• Hardware Support
• Launch Vehicle Systems
• Design Analysis
• Actuators
• Mechanical Drawings
• Engineering Statics
• Prototype Development
• Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing)
• Propulsion
• Avionics
• Welding
• Management
• Communication
• Composite Materials
• Vibrations
• Engineering Design Process
• Development Environment
• Electromechanics
• Fabrication
• Finite Element Methods
• Packaging And Labeling
• Mechanical Engineering
• Machining
• Maintainability
• Manifold
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Mechanical Systems
• Sheet Metal
• Valves (Piping)
• Structural Mechanics
• Structural Systems
• Test Execution Engine
• Collaboration

Job areas

• Engineering
• Manufacturing
• Technology
• Science & Research
• Mechanical Engineer/Designer
• Automotive Engineer
• Mechanical Engineers
• Automotive Engineers