Engineer II, Thermal Design and Analysis (R4934)

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own thermal solutions for the autonomous aircraft launch and recovery system
• Develop and validate analytical, numerical, and computational models for heat transfer and fluid flow using hand calculations and CFD tools such as FloEFD.
• Prototype, test, and iterate mechanism designs for functionality and reliability
• Provide technical leadership in trade studies, system architecture decisions, and risk assessments.
• Drive test planning, instrumentation, and data analysis to correlate models with experimental results.
• Proactively identify risks, propose solutions, and influence mechanical, electrical and/or PCBA design direction.
• Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, avionics, flight controls, manufacturing, and test teams
• Support pre-production builds, prototype integration, and ground/flight testing on the pathway to production and field deployment

Job requirements

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related discipline.
• 2+ years of professional experience in thermal engineering.
• Strong expertise in heat transfer (conduction, convection, radiation) and fluid mechanics.
• Strong understanding of active and passive cooling solutions and their integration at component and system level.
• Understanding of thermal management design elements including TIMs, spreaders, heat sinks, vapor chambers, heat pipes, and fans
• Proficiency with thermal analysis and CFD tools (e.g., ANSYS Icepak, FloEFD, STAR-CCM+).
• Experience with CAD design tools such as NX, SolidWorks, or similar.
• Demonstrated experience applying first-principles reasoning to complex engineering problems.