Senior Thermal Engineer

Highlights

• Own thermal design for drones, aircraft, missiles and flight systems.
• Define architectures for rugged flight envelopes and mission edge cases.
• Drive rapid hardware decisions guiding performance and mission success.

Ideal candidate

A first-principles thermal engineer with 5+ years on aerospace hardware who loves moving from hand calcs to test. Pragmatic, collaborative, and comfortable owning tough tradeoffs for mission-critical flight systems.

Requirements

• MS or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related field with a focus on heat transfer, fluid dynamics, thermal sciences, or thermal systems.
• 5+ years of experience designing, analyzing, or validating thermal systems for integrated hardware products.
• Strong first-principles understanding of heat transfer and fluid dynamics, including conduction, convection, radiation, fluid flow, and transient thermal behavior.
• Experience supporting thermal design for aerospace, aircraft, rocket, missile, UAV, defense, or other high-performance hardware systems.
• Experience using thermal analysis, modeling, simulation, and/or physical test data to drive design decisions for passive or active thermal management systems.
• Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly across engineering, program, and customer stakeholders.