Head, Structures

10+ years of experience in structural design, analysis, and development for high-performance aerospace or similarly demanding hardware, with a meaningful portion in a technical leadership capacity.

Deep experience with primary structures for vehicles, aircraft, spacecraft, launch systems, or other weight-critical systems operating under complex load environments.

Strong understanding of structural mechanics, including strength of materials, stability, buckling, fatigue, fracture, dynamics, joints, and load paths, with sound engineering judgment grounded in first principles.

Experience leading structural development from concept through detailed design, manufacturing, test, and validation.

Direct experience in design and manufacture of both small and large assemblies including weldments and bolted interfaces

Experience making material and manufacturing process decisions for structural hardware, with an understanding of how those choices affect mass, cost, schedule, quality, and production scalability

Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly in environments requiring close integration between design, analysis, manufacturing, test, and systems engineering.

Direct experience with launch vehicle, propulsion structure, pressure vessel, cryogenic tank, interstage, fairing, or other aerospace structural systems.

Hands-on experience with metallic primary structures, weldments, machined structures, formed structures, friction stir welding, bonded assemblies, and the fixturing required

Experience with finite element analysis and structural test correlation, including development and interpretation of detailed and system-level models.

Familiarity with qualification and acceptance strategies for aerospace structures, including proof, burst, modal, vibration, acoustic, and combined-load testing.

Experience operating in a rapid hardware development environment where iterative design-build-test cycles are central to the engineering culture.

Exposure to space and aerospace loads and structural analysis standards.

Hold an advanced degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related field.

Canada Rocket Company is developing Canada's first medium-lift launch vehicle.

We are a team of veterans from SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, ArianeGroup, Pangea Propulsion, Tesla, MDA, and more, bringing over a century of combined launch and space systems experience back to Canada.

Our mission is to provide reliable, independent access to space for Canada and its allies in a rapidly expanding global market.

Our approach is defined by pragmatic engineering:

We utilize a single 725 kN engine that scales from light- to medium-lift via engine clustering.

We lean on simple, proven technologies to reach orbit faster, avoiding the pitfalls of complex or novel designs.

We test early and often, catching problems on the bench instead of at the pad.

Backed by over $20M in funding secured within our first four months, including the largest all-Canadian seed round in the sector and an $8.3M Department of National Defence grant, we are moving with the speed and institutional backing required to meet Canada’s orbital launch needs.