Thermal Engineer

Responsibilities: Own the thermal architecture across the spacecraft, including active and passive thermal control systems. Design active thermal systems including cold plates, coolant loops, pumps, heat exchangers, thermal interfaces, insulation, heaters, and deployable radiators. Lead key engineering trades across performance, mass, cost, reliability, manufacturability, schedule, and operations. Build and correlate thermal models for spacecraft, payloads, and subsystems against ground-test and flight data. Take thermal hardware from concept through manufacturing, integration, testing, qualification, and flight. Build and lead the thermal engineering team, including hiring, mentoring, technical reviews, and verification standards.

Skills & Experience: 8+ years of hands-on thermal engineering experience spanning design, analysis, hardware development, and testing. Strong experience with thermal analysis and modeling tools such as Thermal Desktop, ANSYS, or equivalent. Experience with active thermal control in demanding environments such as space, aerospace, automotive, data centers, power, industrial, or petroleum. Strong understanding of pumped fluid loops, liquid cooling, cold plates, heat exchangers, radiators, or other high-power thermal systems. Experience taking complex hardware from architecture and design through qualification and production or flight. Comfortable leading engineers while remaining deeply hands-on technically. Experience with high-power thermal systems, data center cooling, power-plant systems, automotive thermal systems, refrigeration, or petroleum process systems.