About this role
📍 Location: Torrance, CA
📄 Employment Type: Full-Time
🏢 Work Arrangement: 100% On-site, Monday–Friday
🚀 Start Date: TBD
💰 Compensation: TBD — based on skills and experience
Important Screening Requirements
- BS or higher in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related field .
- 5+ years of aerospace thermal engineering experience .
- Experience supporting rocket, spacecraft, aircraft, missile, or other high-performance aerospace programs .
- Strong understanding of heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and high-temperature environments .
- Experience with electronic unit thermal analysis and control to component-junction temperatures.
- Ground testing experience involving thermal instrumentation and data acquisition .
- Strong MATLAB, Python, or similar programming skills.
- Experience with SolidWorks or Siemens NX .
- Experience preparing formal technical documentation.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance .
- Must be able to work on-site in Torrance, CA .
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Thermal Engineer to lead thermal engineering methodology across advanced missile systems.
This role covers thermal architecture, high-fidelity modeling, first-principles analysis, simulation, hardware testing, ground testing, and flight-test data analysis . You will work across aerodynamics, structures, electrical, propulsion, systems, manufacturing, and test engineering teams.
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for a hands-on thermal engineer who can move between analytical modeling, hardware testing, and flight data while working across multiple engineering disciplines to solve challenging thermal problems.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform thermal design and analysis of unmanned air vehicles from conceptual through detailed design.
- Define thermal system architectures and material-selection strategies.
- Perform thermal analysis using standard thermal-analysis codes and engineering/hand methods.
- Conduct transient thermal analysis for time-varying mission profiles.
- Plan, execute, and analyze specialized thermal ground testing.
- Plan and support flight testing and post-flight thermal data analysis.
- Develop MATLAB/Python models using first-principles methods to support engineering decisions.
- Collaborate with aerodynamics, structures, electrical, and systems engineers.
- Present thermal status during formal internal and customer reviews.
- Prepare specifications, test procedures, technical reports, and other formal engineering documentation.
Required Qualifications
- BS or higher in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related field.
- In-depth understanding of heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and high-temperature environments .
- 5+ years of aerospace thermal engineering experience on rocket, spacecraft, aircraft, or missile programs.
- Experience with electronic unit thermal analysis and component-junction temperature control .
- Ground testing experience with thermal instrumentation and data acquisition.
- Strong programming skills in MATLAB, Python, or similar tools.
- Formal technical documentation experience.
- SolidWorks or Siemens NX experience.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- MS or higher degree with a focus on heat transfer and fluid dynamics.
- Material ablation-response modeling experience.
- Knowledge of material degradation and surface phenomena in demanding thermal environments.
- Experience with specialized thermal ground-test facilities.
- Flight-test experience, including instrumentation design and post-flight analysis.
- Experience with Thermal Desktop/SINDA .
- Experience with manufacturing and assembly of thermal systems.
- Active U.S. security clearance.