About this role
**About the role**
Inflection is seeking an experienced spacecraft analyst to own thermal and structural analysis and guide spacecraft design decisions. This role reports directly to the CTO. This is a full-time, onsite role based out of Inflection’s HQ in Los Angeles, CA.
**What you'll do**
* Own spacecraft thermal and structural analysis, from requirements through flight hardware qualification and test.
* Build and maintain thermal and finite element models for spacecraft, subsystems, and components.
* Evaluate on-orbit temperatures, launch loads, vibration responses, and structural margins.
* Manage analysis and environmental test campaigns.
* Define test requirements and correlate models to test data; diagnose and resolve discrepancies.
* Guide practical design changes with other engineers.
* Support on-orbit spacecraft operations.
**Qualifications**
* 5+ years of thermal and/or structural analysis experience supporting the design, fabrication, and test of complex hardware.
* Experience in heat transfer, stress analysis, structural dynamics, and numerical modeling.
* Experience with spacecraft thermal and structural environments, thermal analysis tools, and FEA.
* Hands-on test support and model correlation skills, with demonstrated ownership from initial analysis through test campaign execution and model correlation.
* The ability to get hands-on, and an appetite to learn new things.