Thermal Associate Engineer (Winter 2027) Verified today
Thermal Associate Engineer (Winter 2027)
This is a 12-week salaried Associate Engineer role for graduates with a bachelor's degree. You will work on projects of equal importance and difficulty to those assigned to full-time engineers, with real hardware destined for space.
What you will do
- Design, analyze, build, and test satellite hardware and software alongside 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 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, collaborating with the integration and test team on hardware installation.
- Plan and run thermal vacuum testing and verification at component and spacecraft level.
Requirements
- Four-year degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, physics, applied math, or equivalent technical field.
- Passion for hands-on hardware development in fast-paced environments.
- Demonstrated ability to personally design, build, and test hardware from scratch.
- US Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, or Refugee/Asylee Status (required by US export control regulations).
Bonus experience
- CAD experience.
- Thermal analysis software such as ANSYS or Thermal Desktop.
- Electronics systems design and packaging.
- Aerospace projects or internships.
Compensation
Base salary: $1,925 per week.