Sr. Thermal Engineer, Thermal & Fluid Analysis (starship)
SpaceX- Location
- Hawthorne, California
- Work mode
- On-site
- Type
- full time
- Listed
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[ About this role ]
SpaceX is hiring a Senior Thermal Engineer for the Starship Thermal & Fluids analysis team in Hawthorne, California. This role involves owning the thermal design, testing, and validation of spacecraft and hardware, automating workflows, and improving vehicle performance and reliability. The position requires a Bachelor's degree in engineering and 5+ years of experience with engineering simulation software like MATLAB.
Skills and focus areas
- thermal design
- fluid analysis
- spacecraft systems
- launch vehicle systems
- 0-d thermal/fluid networks
- 1-d thermal/fluid networks
- engineering simulation software
- matlab
- python
- thermal desktop
- ansys workbench
- scripting languages
Summary written by Ramai from the original posting. Full details and requirements are on SpaceX’s careers page.
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