Lead Thermal Engineer - Colorado
EVONA has partnered with a leading Satellite development who has opened up a new presence in Colorado. You'd be tasked with leading the full product lifecycle of Satellite systems and components
Responsibilities:
- Develop a deep understanding of current generation thermal architecture, analysis and hardware used for LEO spacecraft.
- Work with engineers at our partner company in Como, Italy to develop next generation thermal solutions for LEO and GEO spacecraft.
- Lead the thermal system, subsystem and unit design, analysis and thermal testing (TVAC and Tcycle) activities in the US office. including analyzing customer needs and customers’ payloads requirements
- Lead thermal hardware specification and selection and work with our suppliers to source COTS and custom thermal solutions
- Work closely with I&T for the build of qual and proto-flight spacecraft, and interfacing to contract manufacturers for higher quantity builds of spacecraft.
Essential Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent
- 5+ years of experience in design and analysis of thermal solutions for space
- 5+ years of experience with thermal testing: plans and requirements, instrumentation, test GSE (cold plates, shrouds, heaters, MLI), data analysis and model correlation
- Experience performing orbital thermal analysis using Thermal Desktop and SINDA FLUINT and meshing in Spaceclaim, or equivalent
- Knowledge of relevant industry standards for analysis and test, such as NASA GEVS and SMCS-016 • Successful delivery of hardware that has operated as intended on-orbit
Desired Experience:
- Master’s Degree or PhD in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering
- 10+ years of experience in design, analysis and test of thermal solutions for space
- Experience as a Thermal Lead in a medium to large space program
- Experience with scripting (Python, MATLAB, etc) is desired for test automation, data processing, and analysis results processing / model correlation
- Experience with Thermica and other secondary thermal tools
- Experience with Mechanical CAD and PLM/PDM tools (Solidworks preferred)
- Experience working on proposals and interacting with commercial and government customers (design reviews, etc)
Please reach out to Matthew Mallorie @ m.mallorie@evona.com to apply!
