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Astranis Space Technologies · 2 months ago

Thermal Engineer

San Francisco

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$110K/yr - $140K/yr

Astranis is a company that builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system. The Thermal Engineer will design, evaluate, and test thermal solutions for spacecraft, collaborating with teams to ensure design intent is met and supporting testing and verification processes.

AerospaceInternetSatellite CommunicationTelecommunications

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Mature designs through conceptual, preliminary, and detailed design phases using practical passive and active thermal control techniques

Support 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; provide assistance with the installation of thermal hardware as needed

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

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

Qualification

Thermal analysisMechanical CADThermal control techniquesThermal vacuum testingHands-on testingRecruiting assistancePassion for hardwareProblem-solvingTeam collaboration