Jpl Job Opportunities – Thermal Engineer II

Job Description:

• This unique opportunity is part of the Instruments Division which provides engineering and technology leadership in the development of scientific instruments to explore the Earth, planets, and the cosmos beyond. Division capabilities range from instrument conceptual design through implementation, deployment, and science product generation and distribution. Our expertise spans all aspects of instrument systems and many technical disciplines including cryogenic systems; systems engineering; technology research; development and infusion; science and instrument team collaboration; and instrument flight and ground hardware and software.

Job Responsibilities:

• Mentors junior team members as needed.
• Conducts complex design analyses and oversees assembly and test of cryogenic components.
• Provides sustained thermal and cryogenic engineering support on a flight project or technology development tasks by yourself or as a lead of a small team to meet thermal element deliverables, including competed mission proposals.
• Builds trusting relationships between customer, team members, and line management
• Crafts and makes effective presentations at major reviews or routine team meetings to tell credible thermal story to managers and peers, close all ensuing review action items.
• Partners with other engineers and project personnel to evaluate tests and verify cryogenic products or systems.
• Supports design trades that successfully balance performance margins, resource use, risk, cost, and schedule.
• Helps architect tests, write test plan and report, setup test, conduct test review and test, and perform any required pre-test and post-test thermal analyses.
• Matures designs through conceptual, preliminary, and detailed design phases using practical passive and active thermal control techniques.
• Evaluates and devises approaches to meet engineering requirements.
• Partners with other engineers to complete interface agreements.
• Responsible for formulating and implementing thermal and cryogenic architectures and subsystem designs consistent with the project resources and risk posture.

Job Requirements:

• Capability to develop conceptual thermal designs, perform trade studies, and deselect to a design baseline.
• Skills to establish thermal requirements and interfaces with project partners inside and outside of JPL.
• Capability to identify creative designs within available project resources to meet requirements without appreciable line management oversight.
• Knowledge of industry thermal practices.
• Demonstrated capability of task ownership and commitment to working extra hours to meet key milestones.
• Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Must have general understanding and application of standard principles, theories, concepts and techniques in heat transfer (especially fundamental radiation heat-transfer principles), fluid dynamics and thermal engineering.

Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering (thermal focus) or related technical discipline with typically a minimum of 3 years of related experience; Master’s degree in similar discipline with a minimum of 1 years of experience; or PhD degree in similar discipline with a minimum of 0 years of experience.
• Broad knowledge in one or more of the following areas: cryogenics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermal systems design, controls theory.
• Extensive understanding and wide application of principles, theories, concepts and techniques in heat transfer, thermal and cryogenic system design, analytical modeling practices.
• Thermal systems experience in thermal design, analysis and hardware.
• Experience with thermal control of flight systems for space based instruments.
• Experience in planning, preparation, and execution of flight instrument thermal balance tests.
• Knowledge of policies and procedures at JPL and NASA, including the NASA 5 x 5 risk matrix.
• Proposal experience to secure new business in the flight project and/or technology developments worlds.
• Working knowledge of thermal environments across the solar system for flight system development.
• Thermal software experience (Thermal Desktop and/or NX Space Systems Thermal), mechanical CAD (Solidworks, AutoCAD and/or NX) and data acquisition and processing software tools (Labview and Matlab).
• Experience writing procedures, releasing drawings, and negotiating/implementing cross-domain interfaces such as manufacturing, mechanical stress, or outside vendors/collaborators.
• Working knowledge of typical instrumentation and ground support equipment used in thermal tests.

Job Details:

Company: JPL

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: San Jose, CA, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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