Systems Engineer, Thermal Hardware - Lunar Permanence Verified today
Role Overview
You will work as part of the Lunar Core Components Heat Transfer team, providing thermal hardware expertise to Blue Origin's lunar vehicle architectures. You will develop groundbreaking thermal hardware for lunar landers and drive those designs through build, test, and verification.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and decompose vehicle thermal and subsystem-level requirements into actionable specifications for core thermal-fluids heat transfer components.
- Develop and maintain interface control documents (ICDs) with vehicles to ensure subsystem compatibility and integration fidelity.
- Own heat transfer component artifacts including specifications, safety products, and technical documentation.
- Conduct trade studies and make/buy decisions for hardware selection and optimization.
- Drive verification and validation planning, including environmental testing, functional checks, and mission simulations.
- Participate in hardware design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR) and ensure technical artifacts meet quality and compliance standards.
- Support integration, test, and launch operations with hardware design team, including anomaly resolution and post-launch analysis.
- Support schedule management of hardware engineering efforts, team coordination, and vendor management.
- Review system-level and thermal subsystem CONOPS and translate into datasets for thermal hardware teams.
- Verify compliance of hardware designs against documented requirements such as temperature limits and qualification efforts.
- Facilitate hardware risk, FMECA and FTA discussions with relevant stakeholders.
- Identify process improvements and foster a culture of technical excellence and cross-functional collaboration.
Minimum Qualifications
- B.S. degree in engineering
- 3+ years of related experience
- Knowledge of systems engineering best practices, integration processes, design for manufacturing, and quality control
- Demonstrated experience in requirement analysis, interface definition, and component and system-level verification and validation
- Demonstrated experience with flight integration and environmental qualification (thermal, vibration, etc.)
- Understanding of subsystems and their thermal implications across the mission lifecycle
- Background in active thermal control hardware or thermal analysis
- Demonstrated experience with spacecraft thermal control hardware design and development
- Ability to perform simple thermal assessments via first principles and hand calculations
- Experience with software tools such as DOORS, Jama, MATLAB, Cameo, Thermal Desktop and design and analysis tools
- Demonstrated experience working with interface control
- Demonstrated experience with requirements relaxation and challenging requirements to facilitate hardware development cycles
Preferred Qualifications
- M.S. degree in engineering
- 5+ years of related experience
- Strong communication skills and ability to quickly build consensus among stakeholders
- Experience in space programs from concept through launch and operations
- Hands-on experience with satellite ground systems and mission operations
- Experience with data analysis tools (MATLAB, Excel, Winplot) and scripting (bash, sh, Python)
- Experience evaluating make/buy decisions
- Expertise in active thermal control hardware with proven track record of flight hardware delivery
- Experience with sub-assembly and system-level thermal balance tests and post-test design correlation and validation
Compensation
Base pay ranges vary by location: CA $107,136.00 - $149,990.40; CO $98,208.00 - $137,491.20; WA $107,136.00 - $149,990.40. Other site ranges may differ.
What We Offer
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance
- Paid parental leave, short and long-term disability
- 401(k) with company match up to 5%
- Education Support Program
- Stock options for all regular employees working at least 20 hours/week
- Up to 4 weeks paid time off per year and 14 company-paid holidays
Additional Information
- Travel expected up to 20% of the time
- Relocation provided
- U.S. citizenship or national, permanent resident (Green Card), or lawful refugee/asylum status required
- Standard background check required for all positions