Senior Space Thermal Systems Engineer

Gravitics; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company equity

Medical benefits

401(k) plan

Generous PTO

Employee discounts

Job summary

Gravitics is hiring a Staff Thermal Engineer to own thermal design and integration across orbital structures. You'll guide architectures, requirements, and development roadmaps, and supervise manufacturing while supporting testing and on-orbit ops.

You bring deep thermal expertise across the hardware lifecycle, from sketch to deployment, with strong communication skills and a track record in the space industry.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.
• 9+ years of post-baccalaureate thermal design, analysis, test, and troubleshooting.
• Extensive space industry experience from concept to deployment.
• System architecture design experience.
• Expert-level proficiency in Thermal Desktop or Siemens Simcenter.
• Experience with design in Siemens NX.
• Experience with thermal chamber testing in ambient and vacuum.
• Extensive hands-on data acquisition instrumentation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; confident presenting at reviews.
• Willing to work on Civil, Commercial, and Defense-related projects.

Responsibilities

• Own thermal design and integration for orbital structures, from concept through on-orbit operations.
• Write and maintain system architectures, requirements documents, and development roadmaps.
• Perform component selection and coarse and detailed thermal analysis.
• Manage thermal interface requirements for internal teams and external customers.
• Supervise contract or in-house manufacturing of thermal hardware.
• Design and support test and qualification campaigns including thermal chamber testing.
• Present work products confidently at design reviews to stakeholders.
• Contribute to proposals, funding opportunities, and research initiatives.
• Mentor junior engineers and actively develop team capabilities.

Skills

Thermal design

System architecture

Thermal analysis tools

Siemens NX

Data acquisition

Communication skills

Design reviews

Proposals & funding

Education

Mechanical or Aerospace Eng. degree

Tools

Thermal Desktop

Siemens Simcenter

Siemens NX

Thermal chamber testing

Job description

Gravitics is hiring a Staff Thermal Engineer to own thermal design and integration across orbital structures. You'll guide architectures, requirements, and development roadmaps, and supervise manufacturing while supporting testing and on-orbit ops.

You bring deep thermal expertise across the hardware lifecycle, from sketch to deployment, with strong communication skills and a track record in the space industry.