# Combustion Engineer

Here at The Exploration Company, we are building spacecraft for humanity. Here at The Exploration Company we are developing, producing, and operating Nyx, a modular and reusable orbital space vehicle that aims to eventually be refuellable in orbit - and potentially fly humans in the long run. The heart of a spacecraft lies in its engine, and that's why we, at The Exploration Company, are dedicated to developing our own cutting-edge Propulsion Systems ensuring the highest level of efficiency and reliability in our space endeavours. We are seeking a talented Combustion Engineer to join our Future Project division. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for contributing to designing, analyzing, and optimizing combustion devices for cryogenic rocket engines. Key Responsibilities Provide support to global combustor fluidic system development through application of both theory and/or CFD. Drive and/or contribute to injector design and optimisation against combustor requirements and design intent using theory and/or CFD. Support definition of instrumentation for hot-fire testing and assist with post-test data interpretation and CFD/model correlation. Reduce an

- **Id**: 4030956
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/the-exploration-company-combustion-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Bordeaux, France
- **Countries**: FR
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T15:00:08Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T14:30:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4509
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Relocation assistance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Aerospace Manufacturing, Space Services

## Company

- **Id**: 51900
- **Name**: The Exploration Company
- **Domain**: exploration.space
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/the-exploration-company>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 24
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.208
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 90
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **ANSYS** — Optional: no
- **OpenFOAM** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T18:36:57Z

## Visa

- Country: FR; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 35; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 35 of its adverts here in 24 months; Cap exempt: no

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 90
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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