Senior Thermal Engineer, Space
Senior Thermal Engineer, Space
Senior Thermal Engineer, Space
Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Thermal Engineer for its Space team, which focuses on enhancing military capabilities through advanced technology in space. The role involves thermal design, analysis, and testing for space hardware development, utilizing first principles and various modeling tools. The engineer will also manage vendor relationships and contribute to the development of internal tools and databases related to thermal properties.
Qualification
- BS, MS, or higher degree in engineering, applied physics, or hard science
- Demonstrated knowledge of heat transfer in academic and/or professional setting
- Proficiency in Thermal Desktop or equivalent thermal simulation software
- Experience with MATLAB and Python for modeling
- Strong communication skills for presenting technical information
Responsibility
- Own the thermal design, analysis, test, and associated component vendor management of a space hardware development program.
- Use first principles as a basis for every decision and discern the right level of analysis to apply.
- Define good thermal architecture to withstand the space environments and quantify edge cases.
- Communicate pros/cons of system architecture with respect to thermal considerations.
- Present thermal status at formal reviews internally and with customers.
- Develop internal tools to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of analysis.
- Develop, prepare, and execute thermal tests to inform analysis and reduce risk on key hardware assemblies.
- Support failure reviews and root-cause analysis with test data and thermal analysis.
