Thermal Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Mountain View, California, United States

Salary: $160,000–$200,000 per year

Company

hirify.global supports aerospace and spaceflight missions, projects, payloads, and technology demonstrations.

What you will do

• Design, analyze, integrate, verify, and validate thermal management subsystems for spacecraft, payloads, instruments, and technology demonstrations.
• Define thermal designs, finishes, coatings, conductive paths, requirements, component limits, power profiles, and mission thermal cases.
• Generate and run thermal models to simulate heat transfer and thermal management.
• Write procedures and perform thermal balance and thermal vacuum tests to validate models and verify system designs.
• Define and control thermal interfaces while coordinating with mechanical, electrical, communications, propulsion, government, contractor, and mission partner teams.
• Develop schedules, manage thermal work products and procurements, communicate design trades, and present milestone reviews and reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, aerospace engineering, or a similar technical engineering field.
• Detailed understanding of thermodynamics and heat transfer as applied to space environments.
• Working knowledge of Thermal Desktop or similar thermal analysis tools.
• Experience with SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Windchill, and translating models for thermal analysis.
• Experience with thermal cycling, thermal balance, and thermal vacuum testing.
• Ability to pass a federal background check and work at NASA Ames Research Center in California.

Nice to have

• At least three years of related thermal, mechanical, aerospace, or similar engineering experience.
• NASA or industry spaceflight experience.
• Knowledge of Low Earth Orbit, cislunar, and deep-space environments.
• Experience with cryocoolers and Atlassian tools such as Confluence and Jira.
• Customer relationship management experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position supporting aerospace missions and technology demonstrations.
• Work with project managers, scientists, engineers, technical staff, government personnel, contractors, and mission partners.
• Some travel may be required to support mission and project partners.
• Requires flexibility with deadlines, changing schedules, competing priorities, and unpredictable events.