Spacecraft Thermal Engineer Associate (Summer 2027)

Telemetry Today LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Astranis is seeking a Thermal Engineer Associate (Summer 2027) to join our engineering team in Northern California for a twelve-week, salaried internship. You will work on hard problems and contribute to hardware and software that may head to space, alongside a team of engineers and entrepreneurs.

As an Associate Engineer, you will perform thermal analyses across components, design and test thermal solutions, and collaborate with the integration and test teams to ensure design intent is met.

Qualifications

• Four-year degree in mechanical, aerospace, or equivalent technical degree.
• A passion and enthusiasm for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development.
• Demonstrated ability to personally design, build, and test hardware from scratch.
• US Citizenship or Green Card.
• Don’t meet them all? Not a problem. Please apply even if you do not meet all these criteria.

Responsibilities

• Work with the engineering team to design, analyze, build, and test satellite hardware and/or software.
• Support design trades that balance performance margins, resource use, risk, cost, and schedule.
• Perform thermal analysis to varying degrees of fidelity on propulsion components, batteries, high powered electronics, RF components, mechanisms, and PCBs.
• Design, evaluate, procure and test thermal solutions such as heaters, heat pipes, materials, and coatings.
• Develop processes and procedures for integration and assembly ensuring thermal design intent is met; collaborate with the integration and test team.
• Plan and run thermal vacuum testing and verification at component and spacecraft level.

Skills

Hardware development

Hands-on design

Thermal analysis

Problem solving

Education

Bachelors in Mechanical/Aerospace

Tools

CAD

ANSYS

Thermal Desktop

Electronics packaging

Job description

Astranis is seeking a Thermal Engineer Associate (Summer 2027) to join our engineering team in Northern California for a twelve-week, salaried internship. You will work on hard problems and contribute to hardware and software that may head to space, alongside a team of engineers and entrepreneurs.

As an Associate Engineer, you will perform thermal analyses across components, design and test thermal solutions, and collaborate with the integration and test teams to ensure design intent is met.