Lead Lunar Thermal Architect

Vast; City of Long Beach (NY); On-site; USD 147,000 - 249,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage for员工

Equity

Paid time off

Onsite meals

Job summary

Vast in Long Beach, CA is seeking a Senior Thermal Engineer, Lunar, to own the thermal architecture for crewed and uncrewed lunar hardware. You will define, analyze, and qualify radiators, fluid loops, heat pipes, MLI, coatings, and survival heating for the diurnal lunar cycle.

You'll lead end-to-end thermal design, model correlation, and the development of standards and margins for flight hardware, reporting to the SVP, Lunar Programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, aerospace engineering or physics is required.
• 6+ years of spacecraft thermal engineering experience is required.
• Demonstrated ability to design and analyze spacecraft thermal control systems.
• Experience building and correlating flight hardware thermal models.
• Experience with extreme-environment thermal design driving hot and cold cases.
• Familiar with thermal coatings, MLI, radiators, heat pipes, thermal straps, heater/thermostat.
• Comfortable working during early architecture phases.
• Experience with multiple thermal analysis tools (Thermal Desktop, SINDA/FLUINT, ESATAN).

Responsibilities

• Define the thermal control architecture for lunar surface elements, balancing passive, heat pipe, pumped fluid loop and storage options.
• Size and place radiators for lunar environment considering diurnal swings, albedo and IR loading.
• Own the survival thermal case through lunar night including heater budget and thermal mass strategies.
• Own habitat, airlock, and node thermal control including cabin temperature and humidity control.
• Develop and maintain detailed system thermal models and validate with Thermal Desktop or SINDA/FLUINT.
• Manage thermal budget with temperature targets across launch, cruise, descent, landed scenarios.
• Select coatings, MLI, heat pipes, thermal straps, isolators, heaters and RTDs for lunar environment.
• Plan and conduct TVAC and thermal balance test campaigns and correlate with models.
• Contribute to thermal design standards, margins and environment definitions for lunar hardware.

Skills

Spacecraft thermal engineering

Thermal control design & analysis

Flight hardware thermal modeling

Extreme-environment thermal design

Thermal coatings, MLI, radiators, heat

Early architecture phase experience

Thermal analysis tools (ThermalDesktop

TVAC/test planning (preferred)

Lunar/planetary thermal experience

Crewed vehicle thermal experience

Pumped fluid loop design

Dust effects on thermo-optical props

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics or related technical discipline

Tools

Thermal Desktop

SINDA/FLUINT

ESATAN

Job description

Vast in Long Beach, CA is seeking a Senior Thermal Engineer, Lunar, to own the thermal architecture for crewed and uncrewed lunar hardware. You will define, analyze, and qualify radiators, fluid loops, heat pipes, MLI, coatings, and survival heating for the diurnal lunar cycle.

You'll lead end-to-end thermal design, model correlation, and the development of standards and margins for flight hardware, reporting to the SVP, Lunar Programs.