Thermal CFD Engineer for Lunar Landers

Blue Origin LLC; Washington; On-site; USD 107,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation provided

Travel up to 20%

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC seeks a Thermal Engineer to support the Lunar Core Components Heat Transfer team. You will apply your expertise in heat transfer and fluid systems to develop and verify thermal hardware for lunar landers and related products.

Collaboration across engineering functions is essential as you drive designs from concept through build and test. Minimum BS in mechanical or aerospace engineering with 3+ years in thermal engineering is required; MS/PhD and aerospace experience are highly

Qualifications

• BS degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering required.
• 3+ years of thermal engineering experience.
• Strong grasp of heat transfer and fluid fundamentals.
• Familiarity with heat exchangers, cold plates, radiators, and spacecraft hardware.
• Experience designing, sizing, building, and testing hardware.
• Basic CAD experience; Creo preferred.
• Experience with CFD methods for component-level analysis.
• Experience with thermal analysis tools such as Thermal Desktop, FloCAD, MATLAB, Python, CFD++, Ansys Fluent.
• Demonstrated cross-functional teamwork to deliver results.

Responsibilities

• Provide thermal analysis expertise to Lunar vehicle architectures.
• Lead hardware design, sizing, building, and testing activities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive designs through build, test and verification.

Skills

Heat transfer fundamentals

Fluid systems fundamentals

Creo

CFD methods

Thermal analysis software

MATLAB

Python scripting

Cross-functional teamwork

Heat exchangers

Radiators

Boarding CAD experience

Education

B.S. in mechanical or aerospace engineering

M.S./Ph.D. preferred

Tools

Creo

Thermal Desktop

FloCAD

MATLAB

Python scripting

CFD++

Ansys Fluent

Job description

Blue Origin LLC seeks a Thermal Engineer to support the Lunar Core Components Heat Transfer team. You will apply your expertise in heat transfer and fluid systems to develop and verify thermal hardware for lunar landers and related products.

Collaboration across engineering functions is essential as you drive designs from concept through build and test. Minimum BS in mechanical or aerospace engineering with 3+ years in thermal engineering is required; MS/PhD and aerospace experience are highly