Thermal Engineer
Company Details
Key Responsibilities
- Supporting structural and thermal design efforts for spacecraft system development, including
- Lander and other transportation system elements
- Perform structural and / or thermal computational analysis to design the structural components of the lander
- Completion support for component design specifications and design reviews
- Preliminary design support for trade research, materials, components, manufacturing process selection, design verification, etc.
- Test preparation for test plans, reporting, analysis of test data, and JIG design support for component and system testing.
- Supports the construction of thermal models, performs thermal analysis and predicts the temperature of engineering and flight models.
- Thermal testing and associated heater and sensor location design.
- Evaluate non-conforming materials from a design and analytical perspective and create a report.
- Detailed design and support for Lander systems for structural, thermal, and operational performance.
- Testing support, including rapid prototyping, hardware assembly, integration, and navigation to test sites.
- Maintain proactive coordination between teams, balance and achieve project goals.
- Report to team leaders and group managers.
- Maintain proactive coordination between teams, balance and achieve project goals.
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills / Experience)
- Bachelor of Science and / or Master of Mechanical Engineering or Aerospace Engineering
- Over 3 years of experience in designing aerospace or aviation applications
- Knowledge of thermal design and analysis
- Experience in space environment tests such as thermal vacuum tests
- Extensive experience with CAD software packaging and drawing
- Familiarity with thermal desktops for thermal analysis
- Excellent interpersonal skills, organizational skills, communication skills
- Attitude to adapt to change with speed and learn new things
- Positive attitude, team players, strong responsibility for their work
Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills / Experience)
- Familiar with Solidworks, FEmap, NASTRAN (or equivalent) software packages
- Knowledge of space flight hardware or equivalent mechanical design, material selection, and manufacturing processes
- Knowledge of geometric dimensions and tolerances (GD & T) and stack-up calculations for drawing tolerances (such as RSS)
- Experience in new industrial development projects in aerospace or aviation
- Over 1 year experience of lead team