Head, Structures

About this position

About Canada Rocket Company

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

We are a team of veterans from SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab,Ariane Group, 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:

Weutilizea single
725k Nengine 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.

About Canada Rocket Company

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

We are a team of veterans from SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab,Ariane Group, 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:

Weutilizea single
725k Nengine 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 byover $20

Min 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.

About the role

Canada Rocket Company is building a sovereign launch capability for Canada. We're looking for a Head of Structures to build and lead the team responsible for the structural backbone of our launch vehicle This is a foundational leadership role: you'll own the strategy, design authority, and delivery of the major load and pressure bearing systems that determine the vehicle’s mass efficiency, manufacturability, robustness, and ultimately its path to orbit.

You’llbuild the structures organization around program needs in close partnership with vehicle leadership, system architects, and adjacent engineering leads, ensuring the team has the right capabilities across design, analysis, materials, manufacturing, and test.

If you want to shape the structural backbone of an entire launch vehicle program from the ground up, this is the role.

• Define and execute the structural engineering strategy for Canada Rocket Company's orbital launch vehicle, spanning architecture, design, analysis, material selection, manufacturing approach, test, and qualification
  
  Own the development of the vehicle’s major structural elements, including propellant tanks, thrust structures,interstages, fairings, and other load-bearing assemblies, from early concept through flight hardware
• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing structure, thermal and mechanical engineering team,establishing hiring plans, engineering processes, and a culture ofrigourand ownership
• Drive structural design and sizing across static, dynamic, thermal, acoustic, vibration, buckling, fatigue, fracture, and coupled load environments, ensuring performance across the full mission lifecycle
• Partner closely with propulsion, fluids, mechanisms, manufacturing, integration, and test teams to ensure structural solutions are well integrated at the vehicle level
• Collaborate with the Mission, Systems, and GNC teams to properestablishand classify requirements, loads, and envelopes ensuring missionobjectivescan be met
• Lead material and processselectionfor structural systems, including metallic and composite approaches where appropriate, with clear rationale tied to performance, manufacturability, cost, quality, and rate capability
• Establish the structural analysis, verification, and test approach, includingmarginspolicy, calculation discipline,…