Thermal Engineer, Ai Satellites (starmind)

SpaceX is hiring a Senior Thermal Engineer for their Starmind AI satellite constellation in Bastrop, Texas. This role focuses on the end-to-end cooling stack, specifically performing conjugate heat transfer and thermal-fluid analysis of critical components like cold plates and radiators to manage high-flux heat dissipation from AI compute payloads.

Skills and focus areas

• conjugate heat transfer
• thermal-fluid analysis
• 0-d/1-d thermal-fluid network
• heat exchangers
• radiators
• cold plates
• fluid dynamics
• thermodynamics
• mechanical engineering
• systems engineering
• manufacturing feedback
• test feedback