Senior Thermal Architect for Space Data Centers

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 294,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with match

Stock options

Paid time off

Education support program

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a senior Thermal Architect to own the spacecraft thermal architecture from concept through flight; lead a hands-on team delivering active and passive thermal control across high-power spacecraft, and push rapid prototyping with ground testing and orbit validation.

You will mentor engineers, drive trades on performance, mass, cost, and reliability, and collaborate across ACE to implement scalable, manufacturable thermal solutions for space data centers and future missions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of hands-on thermal engineering: design, analysis, hardware development, and test.
• Strong command of thermal analysis tools such as Thermal Desktop, Ansys, or equivalent.
• Experience with passive and active thermal control in a demanding environment: space, power, automotive, data center, food/manufacturing, or petroleum.
• Comfortable leading and mentoring junior engineers while staying deeply hands-on.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Responsibilities

• Own the thermal architecture: active and passive thermal control across the spacecraft.
• Design the thermal systems from the computing interface: to the radiator
• Lead the hard trades: performance, mass, cost, reliability, manufacturability, schedule, and operational constraints.
• Push novel concepts: prototype rapidly, test on the ground, and validate in orbit.
• Model and correlate: build and correlate thermal models for spacecraft, payloads, and subsystems against real test and flight data.
• Deliver flight hardware end to end: concept through manufacturing, integration, test, qualification, and launch, improving across successive spacecraft.

Skills

Thermal engineering

Thermal analysis

Technical leadership

Mentoring

US citizenship

Education

Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering or related

Master's or Ph.D. in Thermal sciences

Tools

Thermal Desktop

Ansys

Job description

Blue Origin seeks a senior Thermal Architect to own the spacecraft thermal architecture from concept through flight; lead a hands-on team delivering active and passive thermal control across high-power spacecraft, and push rapid prototyping with ground testing and orbit validation.

You will mentor engineers, drive trades on performance, mass, cost, and reliability, and collaborate across ACE to implement scalable, manufacturable thermal solutions for space data centers and future missions.