Senior Thermal Engineer, SpaceActive$194K

The opportunity

Anduril's Space team is dedicated to expanding our AI-powered capabilities into the final frontier, enhancing Space Domain Awareness, Space Control, and Command and Control for U. S.

What you'll do

  • Own the thermal design, analysis, test, and associated component vendor: management of a space hardware development program.

  • Use first principles as a basis for every decision and discern the right: level of analysis to apply. Execute hand calculations, spreadsheet, and MATLAB/Python first-order models to inform path forward before jumping into detailed design.

  • Define good thermal architecture to withstand the space environments. Define: and quantify hot, cold, and any other edge cases that drive the system.

  • Communicate pros/cons of system architecture with respect to thermal considerations.

  • Present thermal status at formal reviews internally and with customers.: Provide clear understanding of timelines and technical status.

  • Develop internal tools to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of analysis.

What they're looking for

  • + years professional experience as a thermal analyst using Thermal Desktop
  • Design or test experience on a space platform
  • Experience developing code in higher-level languages like Python or MATLAB: for applications like lumped thermal capacitance steady state and transient analysis
  • Be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.