Senior Thermal Control Systems Engineer - Space Rovers

Venturi Astrolab, Inc.; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership in the company

Comprehensive health benefits, medical

401(k) plan with company match

Flexible PTO and parental leave

Weekly lunch stipend, snacks on-site

Once a month social hour on-site

Job summary

Venturi Astrolab, Inc. in Hawthorne, California, is seeking a Staff Thermal Control Systems Engineer to lead the design, analysis, and validation of active thermal control for lunar rovers and related space vehicles.

The role focuses on developing control algorithms, simulations, and flight-ready software integration, with a strong emphasis on power-conscious cooling strategies and robust performance under extreme environmental conditions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) related field
• 10+ years of space vehicle thermal control system analysis, design, development, verification, and validation
• Experience building, testing, and validating thermal control systems simulation and analysis tools for space vehicles

Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders to define thermal control system requirements from vehicle and subsystem level functional and performance requirements
• Design, develop, tune, verify, and validate vehicle thermal control system performance
• Build simulation and modeling tools for thermal control system design, analysis and tuning in appropriate tools and mature models as additional test data becomes available
• Design and prototype appropriate controllers that meet the defined requirements using simulations and control system design tools
• Define sizing and placement of thermal control system components such as RTDs, heaters, radiators, etc. to ensure efficient, effective vehicle thermal control
• Analyze and tune controller performance, stability, and robustness using the system simulations and TVAC test data
• Develop control system documentation and work with vehicle software team to convert controller prototypes into flight code, including supporting unit and integrated testing of flight implementations
• Support calibration of thermal control system sensors and implementation of calibration in flight software

Skills

Space vehicle thermal control system

Flight software integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Job description

Venturi Astrolab, Inc. in Hawthorne, California, is seeking a Staff Thermal Control Systems Engineer to lead the design, analysis, and validation of active thermal control for lunar rovers and related space vehicles.

The role focuses on developing control algorithms, simulations, and flight-ready software integration, with a strong emphasis on power-conscious cooling strategies and robust performance under extreme environmental conditions.