Thermal Systems Engineer – Systems IV position at Blue Origin. The role involves developing thermal subsystems for lunar missions, working with NASA on the Human Landing System (HLS) Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) program, and ensuring thermal compatibility and integration fidelity. Passion for the company's mission and vision is required.
Requirements
- Define and decompose system-level requirements into actionable specifications within the Thermal subsystem domain.
- Develop and maintain interface control documents (ICDs) to ensure subsystem compatibility and integration fidelity.
- Conduct system analysis and trade studies to optimize thermal subsystem performance, reliability, and cost across mission profiles.
- Drive verification and validation planning, including environmental testing, functional checks, and mission simulations.
- Lead passive hardware design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR) and ensure technical artifacts meet quality and compliance standards.
- Support integration, test, and launch operations, including anomaly resolution and post-launch analysis.
- Support schedule management of subsystem systems engineering efforts and products, team coordination, and support make vs buy decisions, hardware procurement, and vendor management.
- Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of technical excellence and cross-functional collaboration.
- Ownership of passive thermal artifacts such as the master equipment list, power equipment list, safety products and other documents.
- Ensuring alignment and synchronization of thermal subsystem analysis data with interfacing subsystems such as Electrical Power, Liquids, Gas and GNC.
- Reviewing system level CONOPS information and distilling into useable datasets for consumption by the thermal analysis and passive thermal hardware teams.
- Verifying compliance of designs against documented hardware temperature limits.
Benefits
- Medical
- dental
- vision
- basic and supplemental life insurance
- paid parental leave
- short and long-term disability
- 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%
- Education Support Program
- Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours
- and up to 14 company-paid holidays
