Thermal Engineer, Environmental Control Systems

The role

You will own the thermal management and environmental control systems of air vehicles and other advanced defense platforms. You will perform thermal design, analysis, and modeling to keep subsystems within limits across the mission envelope.

What you will do

• Own thermal design and analysis of vehicle thermal management and ECS
• Use first principles for hand calcs, spreadsheets, and MATLAB/Python models
• Define thermal management architecture and heat-sink strategy
• Size and rate heat exchangers, cold plates, pumps, fans, and valves
• Develop steady-state and transient system models in Simcenter Amesim, Simscape, or GT-SUITE
• Work with other engineers to characterize heat loads and define requirements
• Drive trade studies balancing thermal margin with vehicle-level impact
• Own thermal system models and correlate them to test and flight data
• Lead prototype builds, ground testing, and validation of designs
• Present thermal status and tradeoffs at internal and customer reviews

Required qualifications

• MS or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related field with a focus on heat transfer, fluid dynamics, thermal sciences, or thermal systems
• Strong first-principles understanding of heat transfer and fluid dynamics, including conduction, convection, radiation, fluid flow, and transient thermal behavior
• Experience using thermal analysis, modeling, simulation, and/or physical test data to drive design decisions for passive or active thermal management systems
• Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly across engineering, program, and customer stakeholders
• Ability to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Nice to have

• Experience with thermal system modeling software such as Simcenter Amesim, Simscape, or GT-SUITE
• Experience using MATLAB, Python, spreadsheets, or similar tools for first-order thermal modeling, transient analysis, or engineering trade studies
• CAD experience with Siemens NX, SolidWorks, or comparable tools
• Experience with thermal management, environmental control systems (ECS), air-conditioning, bleed-air, or ram-air systems
• Experience with analysis and modeling of hydraulic, fuel, coolant, or lubrication circuits
• Experience with heat exchanger sizing and rating

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

• Ability to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance
• Consent to pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Their family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.