Thermal Hardware Engineer II - Lunar Permanence
About the role
As a key member of the Lunar Core Components Heat Transfer team, you will be applying your skills to provide thermal hardware expertise to our Lunar vehicle architectures. In this role you will contribute to a team of Thermal Engineers simultaneously developing groundbreaking thermal hardware for lunar landers and driving those designs through build, test, and verification. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!
Responsibilities
- Provide thermal hardware expertise to lunar vehicle architectures
- Develop thermal designs for lunar landers
- Drive thermal hardware designs through build, test, and verification
- Collaborate with 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, radiators, and other common spacecraft hardware
- Demonstrated experience designing, sizing, building, and testing 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
- Experience designing and testing thermal components
Desired
- M.S. or PhD degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering
- 5+ years of relevant aerospace experience
- 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
- 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 Thermal Desktop and Sinda/Fluint, including model validation and test correlation
- Experience with CFD optimization of cold plates, heat exchangers, and radiators
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tools experience
Pay
Base Pay Range: For CA applicants is $107,136.00 – $149,990.40, CO applicants is $98,208.00 – $137,491.20, 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