Amazon Sr Thermal Design Engineer Project Kuiper 

United States, Washington, Redmond 

798689385

Key job responsibilities
- Support extensive architectural trades with preliminary thermal analysis on spacecraft and subsystems for orbital operational conditions and vehicle control options.
- Perform detailed and comprehensive analyses of active thermal control systems, including all required hardware and corresponding tradeoffs.
- Drive design optimization for performance, mass and cost, while meeting system reliability requirements through application of a range of thermal control hardware options.
- Define, lead and execute thermal cycling and thermal vacuum tests for development and qualification testing at subsystem and vehicle levels.
- Support the procurement department in sourcing strategy for all required components.
- Define and select test equipment as needed (e.g., TVAC and thermal chambers, sensors, data logging equipment).
- Conduct testing of prototypes and engineering models for fast design feedback loops.
- Develop and execute reliability plan for demonstration of lifetime of active components.
- Document trades and design evolution, and present results during design reviews.Export Control Requirement:
Redmond, WA, USA

- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years experience with active thermal control of spacecraft, and delivering solutions optimized for mass, cost, reliability, performance, and manufacturability.
- 3+ years experience with test planning, test set-up, results correlation and system verification for production.
- 3+ years experience in development and/or selection of active thermal control hardware (e.g., pumps, deployable radiators, accumulators, and/or heat transfer fluids).

- Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in mechanical engineering or related field.
- Experience with spacecraft thermal design, and delivering design solution optimized for mass, cost, reliability, performance, manufacturability.
- Experience developing hardware and spacecraft that have been to space, and which successfully operated as intended.
- 3+ years experience with Thermal Desktop (SINDA/Fluint), Flocad, Ansys and/or Python.
- CAD skills (NX or Solidworks)
- Experience with interpreting and correlating data from on–orbit telemetry.