Senior/Principal Thermal Engineer

Irvine, California, United States

$110-160k

Full Time

6 minutes ago

Job description

Turion Space is seeking a Senior or Principal level Thermal Engineer to join our team in Irvine, CA. As a Thermal engineer, you will work closely with the Turion Space team to assist in the design, analysis, testing, and operational support of our DROID vehicles and different subsystems. 

Key Responsibilities

  • Thermal design of spacecraft and hardware, from initial high-level analysis down to validation of performance with ground tests, flight, and orbital data
  • Automate workflow to reduce engineering investment in the design cycle
  • Pursue performance/robustness improvements
  • Pursue operational simplicity and seek to reduce burden on other teams
  • Produce quality documentation of your work to reduce miss-rate and improve efficiency
  • Review peer work

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
  • 3+ years of experience using scientific programming languages (internship or project team experience can supplement for industry experience)

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Master's degree in an engineering discipline
  • Experience with Thermal Desktop and Simcenter
  • Experience with 3D and reduced-order thermal modeling
  • Ability to identify sizing cases and quickly evaluate the impact of design decisions
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to deliver against an aggressive schedule
  • Active Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance OR willingness to pursue one is preferred.

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