Senior Thermal Design Engineer

RTX RTX · Aerospace · goleta, CA +1 · Engineering

Senior Thermal Design Engineer responsible for detailed thermal analysis on products throughout their lifecycle, from initial design to production support. Tasks include hand calculations, detailed finite element analysis, test plan generation, data validation, and documentation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Perform Hand Calculations to determine scope of higher detail analysis models.
  2. Perform detailed thermal analyses to solve various program thermal challenges.
  3. Generate test plans required to validate analyses and verify hardware compliance to customer requirements.
  4. Analyze test data to validate and correlate models.
  5. Work with experienced analysts on problems of moderate complexity to provide the answers needed under program cost and schedule constraints.

Skills

Required

  • Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)
  • Minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience
  • Experience in thermal analysis (FloTHERM, PATRAN, Thermal Desktop/SINDA, ANSYS or equivalent)
  • Experience presenting to external customers
  • Experience in mechanical principles to solve classical thermal analysis solutions both inside and outside of finite element tools
  • Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities

Nice to have

  • Advanced degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering
  • Technical competence with thermodynamic principles
  • Experience in circuit card electronics analyses
  • Experience leading a small team of engineers
  • Experience managing scope, budget, and deliverables for team’s tasking
  • Experience with solid modeling CAD tool such as CREO or equivalent
  • Ability to travel to government and other facilities in support of program activities

What the JD emphasized

  • Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date
  • U.S. citizenship is required
  • Ability to obtain INTERIM U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date
  • Experience in thermal analysis i.e. (FloTHERM, PATRAN, Thermal Desktop/SINDA, ANSYS or equivalent)
  • Experience presenting to external customers.