Thermal Engineer
- Countries
- USA
- Job Types
- software & tech, engineering & hardware
- Experience
- mid
- Organization Types
- aerospace, robotics, startups
- Location
- Redwood City
- Posted Date
- Company
- Array Labs
- Salary
- $150,000.0 - $250,000.0 year
AI Summary
Job Description
As a Thermal Engineer, you will own the thermal design of radar satellites and payloads, from architecture through flight verification. Responsibilities include defining spacecraft and payload thermal architecture, owning and extending the thermal simulation framework, supporting board-level thermal design, building and testing thermal hardware, and executing thermal vacuum test campaigns.
Hard Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering, Physics, or STEM degree
- 3+ years of industry experience fielding hardware in thermally-constrained products
- Strong coding proficiency preferably in Python and experience developing or extending engineering analysis tools
- Hands-on experience building, instrumenting, and testing thermal hardware
- Strong grounding in heat transfer fundamentals
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, iterative design environment
- U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual, or eligible to obtain necessary authorizations
Soft Requirements
- Master's or Ph.D. in a related discipline
- Experience with satellite thermal design and flight-proven hardware
- Experience developing thermal or multiphysics simulation software
- Familiarity with software engineering practices
- Experience with thermal management of high-power RF electronics
- Familiarity with two-phase systems
- Experience with commercial thermal tools