Staff Thermal Engineer

Vast is looking for a Staff Thermal Engineer, reporting to the Senior Manager, Thermal Analysis, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of human-rated space stations.

This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.

Responsibilities:

Develop thermal systems requirements

Perform thermal analysis to develop and optimize thermal control designs and provide solutions to a wide range of difficult problems

Coordinate and partner with other engineering disciplines

Document thermal analyses and designs

Review and approve drawings for thermal design hardware content

Report results of analyses and design specifics to internal management and external customers

Work with test engineering to plan and execute subsystem level thermal tests, especially thermal vacuum chamber (TVAC) testing, as well as perform associated analyses

Provide feedback regarding impacts of possible cost and/ or schedule changes

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Physics, or related Engineering discipline with a minimum of 10+ years of related professional work experience, or a Master's degree in a related engineering discipline and 5+ years of experience

Knowledge and understanding of the application of technical principles, theories, and concepts for developing active thermal control systems

Expert with thermal analysis tool: Thermal Desktop

Extensive experience with TVAC testing

Preferred Skills & Experience:

Design, analysis and integration experience of spacecraft thermal systems

Experience using other thermal analysis tools (FloCAD, Ansys Mechanical, SINDA/G, SINDA/FLUINT, TSS)

Experience using fluid analysis tools like Ansys Fluent, FloEFD, StarCCM+

Experience using aerospace standard design tools (NX, CATIA, CREO)

Experience with space vehicle thermal design and/or integration

Experience with active and passive thermal control systems and technologies (pumped fluid loops, heat pipes, etc.))

Spacecraft and/or Payload background with experience through the entire system lifecycle from concept, design, production, integration, test, launch, to operation support

Ability to develop novel concepts for active thermal control systems for space habitats

Pay Range: California

$175,480—$249,096 USD