Senior Thermal Systems Engineer for Lunar Missions

Industrious Ventures; Pittsburgh, Northern (Allegheny County, KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off

Medical coverage

Gym memberships

401(k) match

Wellness programs

Job summary

Voyager Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Thermal Systems Engineer to shape lunar technology programs and mission concepts.

You will define end-to-end architectures for NASA and commercial customers, influencing hardware, software, and system-level decisions across disciplines. You will lead thermal design and analysis for landers, rovers, and power systems, while developing technical content for proposals and internal programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering with 5–10 years of relevant engineering experience.
• Experience developing technical content for proposals and external customer presentations.
• Experience authoring and decomposing mission and system-level requirements.
• Strong understanding of the launch, space, and lunar environments.
• Strong organizational, multi-tasking, and problem-solving skills and able to self-start with minimal guidance.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with changing needs and requirements.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, experienced working with a wide variety of engineers with different skill levels and backgrounds.
• Ability to adapt quickly, think creatively, make critical technical decisions, and take initiative in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and review new concepts and designs of lunar landers, rovers, surface power systems, and spacecraft.
• Support the development and technical content creation for mission opportunities and internal development programs.
• Develop and perform trade studies to support technical, business, and/or programmatic actions and decision-making.
• Perform thermal design and analysis for all mission concepts, right-sizing the thermal architecture to meet end-to-end mission objectives and requirements.
• Identify and develop next generation thermal management systems for lunar spacecraft.
• Identify and resolve system-level impacts driven by thermal design requirements.
• Contribute to programmatic topics such as schedules, resourcing, and budgets estimations.
• Communicate with other engineering disciplines, partners, customers, and vendors to resolve technical risks and challenges.
• Occasionally participate in visits and technical interchange meetings with customer and partner organizations.
• Translate abstract customer requirements into actionable product goals and system architectures that can be presented to customers, utilized in proposals, and marketed to stakeholders.
• Participate in cross functional team meetings to ensure engineering solutions comply with mission and business needs and company technology roadmap.
• Support the system-level technical vision for new products - connecting customer needs with feasible, high-performing solutions across hardware and software domains.

Skills

Space system development

Systems engineering

Thermal design & analysis

Mechanical & fluid systems

Manufacturing

Education

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or Aerospace Engineering or similar

Tools

Confluence

Jira

Job description

Voyager Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Thermal Systems Engineer to shape lunar technology programs and mission concepts.

You will define end-to-end architectures for NASA and commercial customers, influencing hardware, software, and system-level decisions across disciplines. You will lead thermal design and analysis for landers, rovers, and power systems, while developing technical content for proposals and internal programs.