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

Tagged as: flight models, spacecraft system development, thermal computational analysis, geometric dimensions and tolerances, solidworks, femap, nastran