Thermal Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: Hawthorne HQ

Compensation: $90K – $160K • Offers Equity • Multiple Ranges

Employment Type: FullTime

At Reflect, you will be expected to move fast, have a lot of ownership and, most importantly, be able to effect change. If this excites you, we are interested in hearing about your best work and accomplishments across any domain and from any points in your life.

About the Role

As a Thermal Engineer, you will drive the detailed thermal design of our spacecraft at the component and integrated level. You'll develop our thermal management strategies, prove them through iteration and test, and fly reliable systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop robust thermal design for avionics and other electro-mechanical subsystems

• Build and operate our thermal modelling toolchain to provide reliable results that guide key design trades down to the component level

• Develop and use testing systems that can validate in-space component and thermal control system performance

• Guide material selection for components across the spacecraft

• Collaborate with other system designers to manage overall spacecraft thermal performance

Ideal Qualifications

• 4–6 years of professional thermal engineering experience, ideally on spacecraft or other high-reliability hardware

• Demonstrated experience modelling heat transfer with numerical methods with provably accurate results

• Experience validating simulation results with TVAC and thermal cycle testing for space hardware

• Experience designing thermal management systems for spacecraft. Full cycle from simulation to hardware functionality

Even if you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, we are likely still interested in hearing from you. Hiring exceptional individuals is our #1 priority, and we believe that exceptional people often have highly unusual backgrounds.

We are also interested in carving out unique roles for unconventional people that we are excited about working with.

Benefits

Reflect Orbital’s success will hinge on our team, which is why our compensation and benefits plan is designed to reward our employees and support their families as generously as we’re able.

• Broad choice of medical/dental/vision coverage, Reflect covers 100% of each base-policy

• Access to HSA, FSA, and 401K

• Unlimited paid time off, two-weeks per year encouraged

• Healthy lunches provided daily
  
  

Equal Opportunity

Reflect Orbital is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Reflect Orbital is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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