Principal Thermal Engineer

About the role

This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

Responsibilities

• Support all aspects of thermal and fluid system design for various New Glenn spaceflight systems.
• Share in the team’s impact on the systems through their entire lifetime from early conceptual design and configuration through flight operations and sustaining engineering.
• Coordinate analysis questions from multiple teams and help define the scope for the requisite analysis.
• Implement aerothermal, rocket plume heating, and natural environments during all phases of flight.
• Own the documentation and maintenance of analysis inputs, models, and results in reports and data books.

Requirements

• Minimum of BS degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.
• 15 or more years of experience in the fields of thermal or thermodynamic analysis.
• Demonstrated expertise with one or more thermal/fluids modeling tools is required.

Qualifications

• Preferred: 20 or more years of experience and an MS or PhD degree.
• Preferred: Demonstrated expertise with Thermal Desktop, SINDA/FLUINT, ANSYS Classic.
• Preferred: Experience analyzing booster and upper stage of rocket systems.
• Preferred: Experience analyzing cryogenic fluid systems.
• Preferred: Experience with insulation and TPS on launch and re-entry vehicles.
• Preferred: Demonstrated expertise using MATLAB, Python and Git for automating workflow.
• Preferred: Knowledge in the use of 3D CAD tools (CREO is preferred).

Skills

Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short and long-term disability.
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%.
• Education Support Program.
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week).
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

Pay

Base Pay Range For CO applicants is $190,458.00 - $266,641.20
WA applicants is $194,121.00 - $271,768.35
Other Site Ranges May Differ

Schedule

Not specified