andurilindustries

Thermal Engineer, Space

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At a Glance

Location
United States
Experience
2+ years
Department
Mechanical Engineering
Posted
2026-02-18T09:10:41-05:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

MATLABPython

Domain Knowledge

  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Finance
  • Healthcare
  • Insurance
  • Legal
  • Medical

Benefits & Perks

Health Insurance

toward your private health insurance for you and your dependents. Additional

Requirements

Proficiency in Thermal Desktop or equivalent thermal simulation tool

Hands on experience prototyping hardware and conducting thermal tests.

Experience with CAD, selecting instrumentation, post-processing data, correlating models

CAD experience (Siemens NX preferred)

Passion for defending the United States and her allies

Design or test experience on a space platform

Responsibilities

Own the thermal design, analysis, test, and associated component vendor management of a space hardware development program.

Use first principles as a basis for every decision and discern the right level of analysis to apply.

Execute hand calculations, spreadsheet, and MATLAB/Python first-order models to inform path forward before jumping into detailed design.

Define good thermal architecture to withstand the space environments.

Define and quantify hot, cold, and any other edge cases that drive the system.

Communicate pros/cons of system architecture with respect to thermal considerations.

Team

Anduril's Space team is dedicated to expanding our AI-powered capabilities into the final frontier, enhancing Space Domain Awareness, Space Control, and Command and Control for U.S. military and allied partners. We're developing fully integrated hardware and software systems, including Lattice for Space Missions and modular payloads, to address growing threats in space and ensure our Guardians maintain a decisive advantage in this contested war-fighting domain.