Lead Thermal Engineer for Spacecraft Systems

6 days ago


Huntsville, Alabama, United States Aerodyne Industries Full time
About the Role

Aerodyne Industries is a dynamic, rapidly growing engineering and information technology services firm. We take pride in delivering small business agility with large corporation capabilities. Our clients rely on us to prepare NASA's Missions to the Moon and Mars and to defend our nation supporting the Missile Defense Agency and Department of Defense.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Thermal Systems Engineer to provide thermal engineering system requirement support for the analysis of spacecraft and space-based instruments. The selected individual will perform reviews and oversight of complex aerospace craft, space-based instruments, and landing components.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide system functional design and integration support for space hardware interfaces, through the development of the integrated element architecture through appropriate controlling documents and deliverables.
  • Perform technical integration across NASA centers, diverse engineering and program organizations, and a variety of engineering disciplines.
  • Assist in the development of strategic plans and negotiate resolution of open requirement and thermal issues and concerns to ensure closure of TBDs, TBRs, etc. within the corresponding organizational schedule allowance.
  • Supply inputs to key systems engineering products for milestones and provide technical insight for these reviews and events.
  • Assist in technical evaluations of verification closure data and rationale.
  • Support the development and review of key thermal system engineering products for project milestones as well as the maturation of these products.
Requirements
  • Degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or Systems Engineering or a degree in a related technical discipline synergistic with system design is required.
  • Typically, educational requirements are the equivalent of a Bachelor's with at least 25+ years of relevant experience in Thermal engineering and integration, interface definition, or interface requirement verification for complex systems.
  • An understanding of the thermal systems engineering life cycle ranging from requirements development, functional design, hardware integration, and requirements verification is required.
  • An understanding of space flight thermal systems hardware and ground system interactions.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience developing and delivering technical briefings.
  • Negotiation skills demonstrated through technical problem solving.
  • Demonstrated ability to breakdown problems or issues into manageable pieces.
  • Excellent oral, written, interpersonal, customer relation skills, and presentation skills are required.
  • Skills using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, & Outlook) are required.
  • Basic skills using requirement management database tools such as DOORS Next Generation are required.
  • Proficiency with thermal test set up support, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
  • Experienced in thermal desktop.
  • Experienced in NX Team Center.
  • Experienced in thermal Testing.
  • Knowledge of orbital thermal environment development.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Familiarity with NASA standards and MSFC Specifications.


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