Senior Thermal Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p>Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system. Today Astranis satellites provide dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe – large enterprises, sovereign governments, and the US military. </p> <p>With five satellites on orbit and many more set to launch soon, the company is servicing a backlog of more than $1 billion of commercial contracts. Astranis is the preferred satellite communications partner for buyers with stringent requirements for uptime, data security, network visibility, and customization.</p> <p>Astranis has raised over $1.2 billion from some of the world’s best investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Baillie Gifford, Blackrock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, and Snowpoint, and employs a team of 500 engineers and entrepreneurs. Astranis designs, builds, and operates its satellites out of its 153,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Northern California, USA.</p></div><div class="section page-centered"> <div>As an Astranis Senior Thermal Engineer, you will design, evaluate and test thermal solutions ranging from electronic chips to full spacecraft thermal vacuum tests. You must have a strong problem-solving background as well as hands-on testing skills. Experience with spacecraft or printed circuit board thermal mitigation are benefits but not required.</div> </div> <div class="section page-centered"> <div> <h4>Role</h4> <ul> <li>Identify feasible thermal architectures and mature designs through conceptual, preliminary, and detailed design phases using practical passive and active thermal control techniques.</li> <li>Take charge of design trades that successfully balance performance margins, resource use, risk, cost, and schedule.</li> <li>Perform thermal analysis to varying degrees of fidelity (simplified to detailed) on a variety of different types of hardware such as propulsion components, batteries, high powered electronics, RF components, mechanisms, and printed circuit boards (PCBs).</li> <li>Design, evaluate, procure and test thermal solutions such as heaters, heat pipes, thermal interface materials, and surface coatings.</li> <li>Develop processes and procedures for integration and assembly which ensure thermal design intent is met. Collaborate with the integration and test team in the installation of thermal hardware as needed.</li> <li>Plan and run thermal vacuum testing and verification at the component and spacecraft level.</li> <li>Mentor and support junior engineers.</li> <li>Assist in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team.</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="section page-centered"> <div> <h4>Requirements</h4> <ul> <li>Bachelor of Science degree in engineering or physics</li> <li>8+ years of experience in a thermal/mechanical role</li> <li>Experience in thermal analysis and thermally-constrained design; computational thermal design experience (finite methods) is not required but highly preferred</li> <li>Proficiency with mechanical CAD</li> <li>A passion and enthusiasm for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development</li> <li>Don't meet them all? Not a problem. Please apply even if you do not meet all these criteria.</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="section page-centered"> <div> <h4>Bonus</h4> <ul> <li>Experience with Thermal Desktop</li> <li>Experience with ANSYS Mechanical or ANSYS IcePak</li> <li>Experience with Electronics Packaging and Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design