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Spacecraft Thermal Engineer III
Blue Origin · Denver, CO · Posted 4 days ago
Own vehicle-level thermal design and analysis for Blue Moon lunar landers, from architecture and modeling through TVAC testing and spacecraft integration.
This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin’s Blue Moon landers and related products. To further Blue Origin's mission of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth, we are building sustainable infrastructure for our transport of crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Drives the development of thermal systems including system architecture definition, thermal system modeling, component sizing, and design.
- Perform trade studies relating to selection of material and subsystem hardware.
- Perform hand calculations to screen concepts without detailed modeling and to sanity check finite element/difference model results.
- Develop vehicle-level thermal models using SINDA/FLUINT with Thermal Desktop.
- Develop and maintain system analysis documentation.
- Perform steady state & transient thermal analysis of spacecraft thermal systems as well as tracking of system performance in ground ops, TVAC testing, launch, Earth orbit, and beyond Earth orbit environments.
- Provide thermal engineering leadership & support for the development of thermal vacuum (TVAC) test procedures, scripts and installation designs.
- Provide thermal engineering leadership & support for thermal hardware design, documentation (drawings and model based designs), procurement, planning, procedural & operations support of Spacecraft assembly, integration & test (AI&T) efforts.
Minimum Qualifications:
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