Thermal Engineer (Analysis & Test)

Join our team as a Thermal Engineer, where you will play a crucial role in the thermal design and environmental verification of our spacecraft. This hands-on position combines thermal analysis with direct ownership of thermal test development and execution. You will work closely with cross-functional teams and have the opportunity to grow into ownership of increasingly complex subsystem- and spacecraft-level thermal analysis.

Responsibilities

• Thermal Engineer (Analysis & Test) will be responsible for supporting the thermal design and environmental verification of spacecraft, combining thermal analysis with ownership of thermal test development and execution.
• Developing and maintaining thermal models for components, assemblies, and spacecraft-level systems, performing steady-state and transient thermal analyses.
• Leading thermal test campaigns, defining test objectives, success criteria, instrumentation plans, and writing test plans, procedures, and reports.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and comfort working directly with hardware
• Experience supporting hands-on hardware testing in a lab, environmental-test, aerospace, or similarly rigorous hardware environment
• Ability to develop clear engineering documentation, including test procedures, analysis summaries, reports, and presentations

Requirements

• Early-career to mid-career experience in thermal engineering, thermal analysis, environmental testing, or a closely related hardware discipline
• Strong understanding of heat transfer, including conduction, convection, radiation, transient thermal behavior, thermal interfaces, and material properties
• Ability to independently drive technical work, solve ambiguous problems, and collaborate effectively across disciplines
• Experience creating, reviewing, or using thermal models for hardware, components, or integrated systems
• BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related engineering discipline
• For U.S. Roles: To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States (i.e. Green Card holder), or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)

Experience correlating thermal models with environmental-test data

• Experience working in a fast-paced aerospace, space, robotics, research, or high-reliability hardware environment
• Experience using Python, MATLAB, or similar tools for test-data reduction, analysis, or automation
• Experience with thermocouples, RTDs, heaters, data-acquisition systems, vacuum-compatible hardware, and test instrumentation

Preferred

• Experience developing, troubleshooting, automating, or modifying thermal or TVAC chamber capabilities
• Direct experience supporting or leading TVAC, thermal-vacuum, thermal cycling, or thermal-chamber tests
• Experience with spacecraft thermal-analysis tools such as Thermal Desktop/SINDA, ESATAN, or equivalent
• Familiarity with spacecraft environmental-test standards and practices, such as GEVS, MIL-STD-1540, ECSS, or SMC-S-016

Pay

USD 132,000 - 178,000