Thermal Associate Engineer (Summer 2027) Verified today
Thermal Associate Engineer (Summer 2027)
This is a 12-week salaried role for recent graduates with a bachelor's degree. You will work on complex satellite hardware and software projects of equal importance and difficulty to those assigned to full-time engineers. Many past Associate Engineers have designed hardware and software now flying on Astranis satellites.
What you will do
- Design, analyze, build, and test satellite hardware and software with the engineering team.
- Support design trades balancing performance margins, resource use, risk, cost, and schedule.
- Perform thermal analysis at varying fidelity levels on propulsion components, batteries, high-powered electronics, RF components, mechanisms, and printed circuit boards (PCBs).
- Design, evaluate, procure, and test thermal solutions including heaters, heat pipes, thermal interface materials, and surface coatings.
- Develop integration and assembly processes to ensure thermal design intent is met; collaborate with integration and test teams on thermal hardware installation.
- Plan and run thermal vacuum testing and verification at component and spacecraft level.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or equivalent technical field (physics, applied mathematics).
- Passion for hardware development in fast-paced environments with hands-on design and building.
- Demonstrated ability to personally design, build, and test hardware from scratch.
- US citizenship, lawful permanent residency, or refugee/asylee status (required to comply with US Government space technology export regulations).
Bonus experience
- CAD experience
- Thermal analysis software (ANSYS, Thermal Desktop)
- Electronics systems design and packaging
- Aerospace projects or internships
Compensation
Base salary: $1,925 per week.