Thermal Systems Engineer – Systems IV

Role Overview

• Define and decompose system-level requirements into actionable specifications within the Thermal subsystem domain
• Develop and maintain interface control documents (ICDs) to ensure subsystem compatibility and integration fidelity
• Conduct system analysis and trade studies to optimize thermal subsystem performance, reliability, and cost across mission profiles
• Drive verification and validation planning, including environmental testing, functional checks, and mission simulations
• Lead passive hardware design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR) and ensure technical artifacts meet quality and compliance standards
• Support integration, test, and launch operations, including anomaly resolution and post-launch analysis
• Support schedule management of subsystem systems engineering efforts and products, team coordination, and support make vs buy decisions, hardware procurement, and vendor management
• Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of technical excellence and cross-functional collaboration
• Ownership of passive thermal artifacts such as the master equipment list, power equipment list, safety products and other documents
• Ensuring alignment and synchronization of thermal subsystem analysis data with interfacing subsystems such as Electrical Power, Liquids, Gas and GNC.
• Reviewing system level CONOPS information and distilling into useable datasets for consumption by the thermal analysis and passive thermal hardware teams
• Verifying compliance of designs against documented hardware temperature limits

Requirements

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in engineering and 8+ years of related experience
• Knowledge of systems engineering practices, integration processes, design for manufacturing, and quality control
• Proven expertise in requirement analysis, interface definition, and component and system-level verification and validation
• Demonstrated experience with flight integration and environmental qualification (thermal, vibration, etc.)
• Strong understanding of subsystems and their thermal implications across the mission lifecycle
• Background in passive thermal control hardware or thermal analysis
• Demonstrated experience with spacecraft thermal control hardware design and development
• Ability to perform simple thermal assessments via first principles/hand calculations
• Experience with software tools such as DOORS, Jama, MATLAB, Cameo, Thermal Desktop etc. design and analysis tools.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%
• Education Support Program
• Up to four (4) weeks paid time off per year based on weekly scheduled hours
• Up to 14 company-paid holidays.