Thermal Systems Engineer – Systems IV
BLUE ORIGIN
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Denver • Colorado • Florida • United States
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Salary
💰 $133,500 - $203,263 per year
About the role
- Define and decompose system-level requirements into actionable specifications within the Thermal subsystem domain
- Develop and maintain interface control documents (ICDs) to ensure subsystem compatibility and integration fidelity
- Conduct system analysis and trade studies to optimize thermal subsystem performance, reliability, and cost across mission profiles
- Drive verification and validation planning, including environmental testing, functional checks, and mission simulations
- Lead passive hardware design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR) and ensure technical artifacts meet quality and compliance standards
- Support integration, test, and launch operations, including anomaly resolution and post-launch analysis
- Support schedule management of subsystem systems engineering efforts and products, team coordination, and support make vs buy decisions, hardware procurement, and vendor management
- Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of technical excellence and cross-functional collaboration
- Ownership of passive thermal artifacts such as the master equipment list, power equipment list, safety products and other documents
- Ensuring alignment and synchronization of thermal subsystem analysis data with interfacing subsystems such as Electrical Power, Liquids, Gas and GNC.
- Reviewing system level CONOPS information and distilling into useable datasets for consumption by the thermal analysis and passive thermal hardware teams
- Verifying compliance of designs against documented hardware temperature limits
Requirements
- Minimum of a B.S. degree in engineering and 8+ years of related experience
- Knowledge of systems engineering practices, integration processes, design for manufacturing, and quality control
- Proven expertise in requirement analysis, interface definition, and component and system-level verification and validation
- Demonstrated experience with flight integration and environmental qualification (thermal, vibration, etc.)
- Strong understanding of subsystems and their thermal implications across the mission lifecycle
- Background in passive thermal control hardware or thermal analysis
- Demonstrated experience with spacecraft thermal control hardware design and development
- Ability to perform simple thermal assessments via first principles/hand calculations
- Experience with software tools such as DOORS, Jama, MATLAB, Cameo, Thermal Desktop etc. design and analysis tools.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability
- 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%
- Education Support Program
- Up to four (4) weeks paid time off per year based on weekly scheduled hours
- Up to 14 company-paid holidays.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
thermal subsystem analysisrequirement analysisinterface definitionverification and validationflight integrationenvironmental qualificationpassive thermal control hardwarethermal analysisthermal assessmentsdesign for manufacturing
Soft Skills
team coordinationmentoringcross-functional collaborationschedule managementanomaly resolution