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Astranis Space Technologies · 10 hours ago

Senior Thermal Engineer

San Francisco

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$145K/yr - $180K/yr

6+ years exp

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system. As a Senior Thermal Engineer, you will design, evaluate, and test thermal solutions for spacecraft, ensuring effective thermal management through various design phases.

AerospaceInternetSatellite CommunicationTelecommunications

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Identify feasible thermal architectures and mature designs through conceptual, preliminary, and detailed design phases using practical passive and active thermal control techniques

Take charge of design trades that successfully balance performance margins, resource use, risk, cost, and schedule

Perform thermal analysis to varying degrees of fidelity (simplified to detailed) on a variety of different types of hardware such as propulsion components, batteries, high powered electronics, RF components, mechanisms, and printed circuit boards (PCBs)

Design, evaluate, procure and test thermal solutions such as heaters, heat pipes, thermal interface materials, and surface coatings

Develop processes and procedures for integration and assembly which ensure thermal design intent is met. Collaborate with the integration and test team in the installation of thermal hardware as needed

Plan and run thermal vacuum testing and verification at the component and spacecraft level

Mentor and support junior engineers

Assist in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team

Qualification

Thermal analysisMechanical CADThermal designThermal DesktopANSYS MechanicalElectronics PackagingHands-on testingProblem-solvingMentoringTeam collaboration