Vast
Staff Thermal Engineer
$175K–$249K
Long Beach, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 17, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years with a bachelor’s degree, or 5+ years with a master’s degree.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Physics, or related Engineering discipline; or a Master's degree in a related engineering discipline.
About the job
Develop thermal systems and thermal-control designs for human-rated space stations, including analysis, testing, documentation, and coordination with other engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Develop thermal requirements, analyze and optimize thermal-control designs, and document analyses and designs.
- Review thermal hardware drawings; report analysis results and design details to internal management and external customers.
- Plan and support subsystem thermal testing, especially TVAC testing, and assess potential cost or schedule impacts.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Physics, or a related engineering discipline with 10+ years of related professional experience, or a master’s degree in a related engineering discipline with 5+ years of experience.
- Knowledge of technical principles for developing active thermal-control systems.
- Expertise with Thermal Desktop.
- Extensive TVAC testing experience.
Nice to have
- Spacecraft thermal-system design, analysis, and integration experience; experience with active and passive thermal-control systems.
- Experience with other thermal, fluid, or aerospace design tools, including FloCAD, Ansys Mechanical, SINDA/G, SINDA/FLUINT, TSS, Ansys Fluent, FloEFD, StarCCM+, NX, CATIA, or CREO.
Pay
$175,480 — $249,096 USD (base salary)
Tools
Thermal Desktop, TVAC, FloCAD, Ansys Mechanical, SINDA/G, SINDA/FLUINT, TSS, Ansys Fluent
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