Thermal Hardware Engineer II - Lunar Permanence Verified today
About the role
This role is part of Blue Origin's Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Moon landers and related products. You will join the Lunar Core Components Heat Transfer team as a key member, applying thermal hardware expertise to lunar vehicle architectures.
You will contribute to designing, building, testing, and verifying groundbreaking thermal hardware for lunar landers. You will apply technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to support safe human spaceflight.
What you will do
- Provide thermal hardware expertise to lunar vehicle architectures
- Design, size, build, and test thermal hardware and systems
- Drive designs through build, test, and verification phases
- Work in cross-functional teams to deliver results
- Apply heat transfer and fluid system fundamentals to component design
Required qualifications
- B.S. degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering
- 3 or more years of relevant thermal engineering experience
- Strong grasp of heat transfer and fluid system fundamentals
- Familiarity with heat exchangers, cold plates, radiators, and common spacecraft hardware
- Demonstrated experience designing, sizing, building, and testing hardware
- Understanding of aerospace hardware verification and validation processes
- Moderate experience with CAD software, preferably Creo
- Familiarity with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation methods for component-level analysis
- Experience designing and testing thermal components
- Demonstrated experience working in cross-functional teams
Desired qualifications
- M.S. or Ph.D. degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering
- 5 or more years of relevant aerospace experience
- Solid understanding of pumped fluid loop hardware such as pumps, cold plates, radiators, valves, heat exchangers, and semi-passive devices like sensors and heaters
- Familiarity with relevant standards such as AS9100D, ASME, SAE, AWS, and ANSI Y14.5 specifications
- Experience solving a variety of thermal problems demonstrating breadth in application
- Vendor technical management experience
- Design for manufacturability and assembly experience
- Experience developing component specifications
- Demonstrated experience in Creo modeling and drawing creation
- Familiarity with Thermal Desktop and Sinda/Fluint, including model validation and test correlation
- Experience with CFD optimization of cold plates, heat exchangers, and radiators
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tools experience
Compensation and benefits
Base pay range varies by location. CA and WA applicants: $107,136.00 to $149,990.40. CO applicants: $98,208.00 to $137,491.20. Other site ranges may differ.
Benefits include medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with company match up to 5%, and education support program. Stock options available for regular employees working at least 20 hours per week. Paid time off up to four weeks per year and up to 14 company-paid holidays. Bonus eligibility dependent on role type and job level.
Requirements
- U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted as refugee or granted asylum
- Relocation provided
- Travel expected up to 20 percent of the time
- Background check required for all positions