Thermal Engineer, Environmental Control Systems

Highlights

• Own thermal and environmental control systems from concept through flight deployment.
• Keep avionics, payloads and power systems within limits across mission envelope.
• Support rapid innovation cycle for advanced defense technologies.

Ideal candidate

First-principles thermal engineer with advanced degree who thrives owning complex systems end-to-end, from analysis to flight test, and cares about delivering resilient hardware for contested environments.

Requirements

• MS or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Applied Physics or related field with focus on thermal sciences
• Strong first-principles understanding of heat transfer and fluid dynamics including conduction, convection, radiation and transient behavior
• Experience using thermal analysis, modeling, simulation and test data to drive design decisions