Lead Thermal Engineer

Description:

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of engineers that are accountable for performing integrated thermal analysis to determine radiator/heater sizing and external coatings required to maintain all elements of the SV in thermal limits.
• Coach and mentor team members on technical and professional challenges, create development plans and create an excellent team culture.
• Execute load capacity planning and work assignments to ensure program milestones and trade studies are met.
• Act as the company SME for thermal analysis and thermal design. Support anomaly resolution, customer meetings and supplier meetings to drive the right overall system solution.
• Support hardware designers in selection of materials, process and tests that comply with thermal design.
• Coordinate thermal interfaces between spacecraft subsystems. Flow down interfaces and environments to component suppliers.
• Develop test and verification approaches and levels for thermal verification of components.

Experience required:

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering or a related field. Master’s degree preferred but not required.
• 8-10+ years of thermal analysis experience, 3+ years of team leadership, technical leadership or management experience.
• Thermal Desktop
• Possess excellent interpersonal skills, able to work effectively within an organization and convey decisions, direction, and conclusions in a manner meaningful to the audience.
• Extensive experience in spacecraft design, launch and operation including experience at all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Experience in integrated software / hardware verification and test.