Thermal Engineer

Astrion•Mountain View, CA

18h•Onsite

About The Position

Astrion has an exciting opportunity for an Thermal Engineer located at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA. The Thermal Engineer will support missions, projects, payloads, and technology demonstrations. The Thermal Engineer will be responsible for the design, analyses, integration, test, and management of the thermal subsystem of spacecraft, payloads, instruments, and technology demonstrations. Working with systems engineers and other subsystem engineers to ensures that all components, subassemblies, subsystems, and systems survive the temperature environments for operational and non-operational limits throughout all project and mission phases.

Requirements

A Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, aerospace engineering, or similar engineering technical area
Detailed understanding of thermodynamics and heat transfer as applied to space environments
Working knowledge and experience with Thermal Desktop or similar thermal analysis toolsets
Experience with Solidworks, AutoCAD, Windchill and translation of models for thermal analyses
Experience with thermal verification and validation including thermal cycling, thermal balance, and thermal vacuum testing
Flexible in adapting to deadlines, changing schedules, competing priorities, and unpredictable events
Thorough, detail oriented, and organized, with excellent time management skills, and ability to prioritize tasks
Familiar with and able to present data and recommendations to a diverse audience of project managers, scientists, engineers, and technical staff
Superb verbal and written communication skills
Self-motivated and independent thinker

Nice To Haves

At least 3 years of related experience in Thermal Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or similar
NASA or industry spaceflight experience highly desired
Knowledge and experience working with Low Earth Orbit, Cis-Lunar, and Deep Space environments desirable
Experience and understanding of cryocoolers a benefit
Exceptional customer relationship management highly desirable
Working knowledge and experience with Atlassian tools including Confluence and Jira a bonus

Responsibilities

Responsible for Thermal design, analyses, verification and validation of the thermal management subsystem for spacecraft, payloads, instruments, and technology demonstrations.
Define the work products, finishes, coatings, conductive paths and overall thermal design based on the project concept of operations and requirements
Working with other subsystem engineers (mechanical, electrical, communications, propulsion) to optimize design form, fit, function, and performance of the thermal control subsystem
Generate and run the thermal models to simulate the heat transfer and thermal management
Translate requirements, component limits, power profiles, and concept of operations to define thermal cases relevant for mission analyses
Define, write test procedures, and perform thermal balance and thermal vacuum test to provide model validation and verify the system design
Identify and communicate design trades
Develop the schedule include tasks, procurements, lead times, test flow and durations for the thermal subsystems
Responsible for periodic and milestone review thermal products and reports
Create, define, control and verify thermal interfaces for subsystems, payloads, and technologies
Interface with Government, contractors and mission partner staff for thermal interfaces
Some travel may be required to support mission and project partners