Sr. Thermal Design Engineer, Amazon LEO

Key job responsibilities

• Support extensive architectural trades with preliminary thermal analysis on spacecraft and subsystems for orbital operational conditions and vehicle control options.
• Perform detailed and comprehensive analyses of active thermal control systems, including all required hardware and corresponding tradeoffs.
• Drive design optimization for performance, mass and cost, while meeting system reliability requirements through application of a range of thermal control hardware options.
• Define, lead and execute thermal cycling and thermal vacuum tests for development and qualification testing at subsystem and vehicle levels.
• Support the procurement department in sourcing strategy for all required components.
• Define and select test equipment as needed (e.g., TVAC and thermal chambers, sensors, data logging equipment).
• Conduct testing of prototypes and engineering models for fast design feedback loops.
• Develop and execute reliability plan for demonstration of lifetime of active components.
• Document trades and design evolution, and present results during design reviews.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
• 5+ years experience with thermal control of spacecraft, and delivering solutions optimized for mass, cost, reliability, performance, and manufacturability.
• 3+ years of experience with thermal simulation software (e.g., Thermal Desktop (SINDA), Ansys), and programming (e.g., python, Matlab).
• 3+ years experience with test planning, test set-up, results correlation and system verification for production.
• 3+ years experience in development and/or selection of passive and active thermal control hardware.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
• Experience with the project management of technical projects
• Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in mechanical engineering or related field.
• Experience developing hardware and spacecraft that have been to space, and which successfully operated as intended.
• Developing spacecraft thermal solutions for high power flux components
• CAD skills (NX or Solidworks)
• Experience with interpreting and correlating data from on–orbit telemetry.