Senior Thermal Engineer

Highlights

• Own thermal design and analysis for drones, aircraft, and missiles.
• Ensure defense systems perform reliably in demanding real-world environments.
• Define thermal architectures for rugged flight and mission edge cases.

Ideal candidate

A pragmatic thermal expert who loves hardware and moves fast from first-principles analysis to testing. You thrive owning designs for high-performance flight systems in collaborative, mission-driven teams.

Requirements

• MS or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Applied Physics or related field
• 5+ years designing, analyzing or validating thermal systems for hardware products
• Strong first-principles understanding of heat transfer and fluid dynamics
• Experience supporting thermal design for aerospace, missile, UAV or defense systems
• Experience using analysis, modeling, simulation and test data to drive design decisions
• Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs across engineering and customers