Spacecraft Thermal Engineer (Junior/Mid) – Hybrid Espoo

ICEYE Oy; Espoo; Hybrid; EUR 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Occupational healthcare

Insurance (occupational and accident)

Self-development time

Office and collaboration spaces

Job summary

ICEYE Oy in Espoo, Finland, invites applications for a Junior / Mid-Level Thermal Engineer to join the Thermal Engineering team. The role covers thermal analysis, design and testing of spacecraft, with senior engineers guiding you as you grow. We welcome recent graduates; no prior professional space experience required.

You should have solid engineering fundamentals, curiosity and a willingness to learn. Opportunities to automate data processing and contribute to modeling and testing workflows

Qualifications

• Have a bachelor's or master's degree in mechanical engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, or a related field, with a foundation in thermodynamics and heat transfer is preferred but not needed it.
• Can apply engineering fundamentals to problems, explain your reasoning, and work carefully with technical data.
• Are interested in spacecraft thermal engineering and willing to learn the team’s analysis and test tools.
• Communicate clearly, collaborate constructively, and share the values described in How We Work Together.

Responsibilities

• Help build and maintain spacecraft thermal models and run analyses under the guidance of experienced engineers.
• Assist with assessing thermal design options and checking performance against requirements.
• Support the preparation of thermal vacuum (TVAC), thermal cycling, and thermal balance test procedures and reports.
• Help process analysis results and test telemetry, generate plots and tables, and investigate differences between predictions and measurements.
• Document analysis cases, assumptions, results, and model correlation work so that findings can be reviewed and traced to source data.
• Collaborate with engineers across disciplines and identify opportunities to improve thermal engineering workflows.

Skills

Engineering fundamentals

Curiosity

Willingness to learn

Clear communication

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's or Master in ME/AE

MSc in Aerospace Engineering

Tools

Systema-Thermica

ESATAN

Python

Job description

ICEYE Oy in Espoo, Finland, invites applications for a Junior / Mid-Level Thermal Engineer to join the Thermal Engineering team. The role covers thermal analysis, design and testing of spacecraft, with senior engineers guiding you as you grow. We welcome recent graduates; no prior professional space experience required.

You should have solid engineering fundamentals, curiosity and a willingness to learn. Opportunities to automate data processing and contribute to modeling and testing workflows