Thermal Design Engineer II - Lunar Permanence

About the role

This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin’s Blue Moon landers and related products. As a key member of the Lunar Core Components Heat Transfer team, you will provide thermal hardware expertise to our Lunar vehicle architectures, contributing to a team of Thermal Engineers developing thermal hardware for lunar landers and driving those designs through build, test, and verification. Passion for our mission and vision is required.

Responsibilities

• Apply thermal hardware expertise to Lunar vehicle architectures
• Design, size, build, and test thermal hardware
• Drive thermal designs through build, test, and verification
• Work in cross-functional teams to deliver results

Requirements

• 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
• Understanding of aerospace hardware verification and validation process
• Moderate experience with CAD software; preferably Creo
• Familiarity with computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation methods for component-level analysis

Qualifications

• M.S. or PhD degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering (desired)
• 5+ years of relevant aerospace experience (desired)
• Solid understanding of pumped fluid loop hardware such as pumps, cold plates, radiators, valves, heat exchangers, etc and semi-passive devices like sensors and heaters (desired)
• Familiarity with relevant standards such as AS9100D, ASME, SAE, AWS and ANSI Y14.5 specifications (desired)
• Experience solving a variety of thermal problems demonstrating breadth in application (desired)
• Vendor technical management experience (desired)
• Design for manufacturability and assembly experience (desired)
• Experience developing component specifications (desired)
• Demonstrated experience in CREO modeling and drawing creation (desired)
• Familiarity with precision drilling techniques (desired)
• Experience with complex CREO modeling techniques and hole patterning (desired)
• Familiarity with Thermal Desktop and Sinda/Fluint, including model validation and test correlation (desired)
• Experience with CFD optimization of cold plates and heat exchangers (desired)
• Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tools experience (desired)

Pay

Base Pay Range: For CA applicants is $107,136.00 – $149,990.40 For CO applicants is $98,208.00 – $137,491.20 For WA applicants is $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 (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays

Schedule

Travel expected up to 20% of the time.