Turion Space is seeking a Senior or Principal level Thermal Engineer to join our team in Irvine, CA. As a Thermal engineer, you will work closely with the Turion Space team to assist in the design, analysis, testing, and operational support of our DROID vehicles and different subsystems.
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Thermal design of spacecraft and hardware, from initial high-level analysis down to validation of performance with ground tests, flight, and orbital data
- Automate workflow to reduce engineering investment in the design cycle
- Pursue performance/robustness improvements
- Pursue operational simplicity and seek to reduce burden on other teams
- Produce quality documentation of your work to reduce miss-rate and improve efficiency
- Review peer work
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Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
- 3+ years of experience using scientific programming languages (internship or project team experience can supplement for industry experience)
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Master's degree in an engineering discipline
- Experience with Thermal Desktop and Simcenter
- Experience with 3D and reduced-order thermal modeling
- Ability to identify sizing cases and quickly evaluate the impact of design decisions
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to deliver against an aggressive schedule
- Active Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance OR willingness to pursue one is preferred.
Turion Space was formed with the vision of building the technology required for humanity's interplanetary future. To achieve this goal, Turion Space is building low-earth-orbit spacecraft to move things around in space and gather Space Domain Awareness (SDA) data when we're not, ensuring continuous value generation. Turion Space aims to build the highest delta-V per dollar space transport vehicles and is launching the DROID.001 mission in June 2023, and DROID.002 in June 2024.