SpaceX Senior Thermal Engineer on the Starship Thermal & Fluid Analysis team responsible for thermal design, test, and validation of spacecraft and hardware. Focus on improving vehicle performance and reliability.
Responsibilities
Own thermal design of spacecraft, launch vehicles, and hardware, from initial high-level analysis down to validation of performance with ground tests, flight, and orbital data.
Automate workflow above to reduce engineering investment in per-mission analysis.
Pursue performance/robustness improvements.
Pursue operational simplicity and seek to reduce burden on other groups at SpaceX.
Produce quality documentation of your work to reduce miss-rate and improve efficiency.
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
5+ years of professional experience using engineering simulation software such as MATLAB.
Preferred
Master’s degree in an engineering discipline.
5+ years professional experience with thermal or fluid analysis.
Strong understanding of spacecraft and/or launch vehicle systems.
Experience with 0-D and 1-D thermal/fluid networks.
Experience with Thermal Desktop and/or ANSYS Workbench.
Working knowledge of scripting languages (specifically Python).
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Ability to deliver against an aggressive schedule.
