Lunar Thermal Systems Engineer — Heat Transfer

Blue Origin LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Paid parental leave

Short and long term disability

401k with company match up to 5%

Stock options for regular employees

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC seeks a Thermal Engineer to advance lunar thermal hardware within the Lunar Core Components Heat Transfer team. You will define requirements, drive ICDs, and own heat transfer artifacts for lunar vehicle architectures, guiding verification, design reviews, and cross-functional collaboration.

Ideal candidates bring 3+ years of experience in spacecraft thermal control hardware, plus hands-on analysis using tools like MATLAB, DOORS, and Cameo.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in engineering.
• 3+ years of related experience.
• Knowledge of systems engineering best practices, integration processes, design for manufacturing, and quality control.
• Demonstrated experience in requirement analysis, interface definition, and component and system-level verification and validation.
• Demonstrated experience with flight integration and environmental qualification (thermal, vibration, etc.).
• Understanding of subsystems and their thermal implications across the mission lifecycle.
• Background in active 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.
• Demonstrated experience working interface control.
• Demonstrated experience with requirements relaxation and challenging requirements to facilitate hardware development cycle.

Responsibilities

• Define and decompose Vehicle Thermal and Other subsystem-level requirements into actionable specifications within the Core Thermal-Fluids Heat transfer component domain to ensure our hardware meets vehicle needs.
• Develop and maintain interface control documents (ICDs) with vehicle/s to ensure subsystem compatibility and integration fidelity.
• Ownership of heat transfer component artifacts such as specifications, safety products, and other documents.
• Conduct trade studies and make/buy decisions to determine hardware selection or optimization.
• Drive verification and validation planning, including environmental testing, functional checks, and mission simulations.
• Participate in hardware design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR) and ensure technical artifacts meet quality and compliance standards.
• Support integration, test, and launch operations with hardware design team, including anomaly resolution and post-launch analysis as required.
• Support schedule management of hardware engineering efforts and products, team coordination, and support make vs buy decisions, hardware procurement, and vendor management.
• Identify process improvements, generate new ideas, and foster a culture of technical excellence and cross-functional collaboration.
• Ensuring alignment and synchronization of component analysis data with Vehicle system teams and interfacing subsystems such as Electrical Power, Liquids, Gas and GNC as required.
• Reviewing system level & thermal subsystem level CONOPS information and distilling into usable datasets for consumption by the thermal hardware teams.
• Verifying compliance of hardware designs against documented requirements (such as temperature limits, AT/QT effort and so on).
• Facilitate hardware risk, FMECA and FTA discussions with relevant stakeholders.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements analysis

Interface definition

Hardware integration

FMECA/FTA

Thermal analysis

Communication

Education

B.S. in engineering

M.S. in engineering

Tools

DOORS

Jama

MATLAB

Cameo

Thermal Desktop

Job description

Blue Origin LLC seeks a Thermal Engineer to advance lunar thermal hardware within the Lunar Core Components Heat Transfer team. You will define requirements, drive ICDs, and own heat transfer artifacts for lunar vehicle architectures, guiding verification, design reviews, and cross-functional collaboration.

Ideal candidates bring 3+ years of experience in spacecraft thermal control hardware, plus hands-on analysis using tools like MATLAB, DOORS, and Cameo.