Rover Thermal Control Systems Engineer (GNC/ Software) Verified today

Astrolab · Hawthorne, CA · Space Systems · first seen 2026-09-03

About the role

Astrolab is seeking a control systems engineer to support development and software implementation of active thermal control systems and algorithms for extra-terrestrial rovers with highly constrained power and energy budgets.

You will lead thermal control system development including:

  • Simulation and analysis of vehicle thermal controls and algorithms
  • Identification and sizing of thermal control system sensors and actuators (heaters or other)
  • Analysis, characterization, verification, and validation of thermal control system and algorithm performance
  • Gain tuning
  • Integrated hardware and software testing to verify thermal control system performance

About Astrolab

Astrolab is The Lunar Operations Company. We design and build the systems and hardware the lunar economy will come to depend on: rovers, power, and data networks for sustained operations on the Moon. We focus on solving the problems that must be addressed before the next chapter of human exploration can scale.