Thermal Design Engineer II - Lunar Permanence
About the role
As a key member of the Lunar Core Components Heat Transfer team, you will apply your thermal hardware expertise to Blue Origin’s lunar vehicle architectures. You will work alongside a team of Thermal Engineers developing cutting-edge thermal hardware for lunar landers and shepherding those designs through build, test, and verification. The role directly supports Blue Origin’s mission to enable millions of people to live and work in space for the benefit of Earth by building sustainable infrastructure for crew and cargo transport to the lunar surface.
Responsibilities
- Provide thermal hardware expertise to lunar vehicle architectures
- Design, size, build, and test thermal hardware components
- Drive designs through build, test, and verification phases
- Collaborate in cross-functional teams to deliver results
Qualifications
- Minimum of a B.S. degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering
- 3+ years of relevant Thermal Engineering experience
- Strong grasp of heat transfer and fluid system fundamentals
- Familiarity with heat exchangers, cold plates, and other common spacecraft hardware
- Demonstrated experience designing, sizing, building, and testing hardware
- Understanding of aerospace hardware verification and validation processes
- Moderate experience with CAD software; preferably Creo
- Familiarity with computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation methods for component-level analysis
Desired
- M.S. or PhD degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering
- 5+ years of relevant aerospace experience
- Solid understanding of pumped fluid loop hardware (pumps, cold plates, radiators, valves, heat exchangers) and semi-passive devices (sensors, heaters)
- Familiarity with relevant standards such as AS9100D, ASME, SAE, AWS and ANSI Y14.5 specifications
- Experience solving a variety of thermal problems demonstrating breadth in application
- Vendor technical management experience
- Design for manufacturability and assembly experience
- Experience developing component specifications
- Demonstrated experience in CREO modeling and drawing creation
- Familiarity with precision drilling techniques and complex CREO modeling techniques including hole patterning
- Familiarity with Thermal Desktop and Sinda/Fluint, including model validation and test correlation
- Experience with CFD optimization of cold plates and heat exchangers
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tools experience
Special Mentions
- Relocation provided
- Travel expected up to 20% of the time
Pay
Base Pay Range: • California applicants: $107,136.00 – $149,990.40 • Colorado applicants: $98,208.00 – $137,491.20 • Washington applicants: $107,136.00 – $149,990.40 Other site ranges may differ
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 weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays