Principal / Sr. Principal Thermal Engineer - Mission Enabling Products

An organization within Northrop Grumman’s Payload and Ground Systems (PGS) division, Mission Enabling Products is a leading designer, producer, and supplier of spacecraft components that power and enable satellites of all classes. Products include spacecraft panels, bus structures, precision optical structures, deployable structural systems and mechanisms, solar arrays, and antenna reflectors. Our products are on virtually every U.S. satellite built in the last 20 years.

The team in Oxnard, CA is seeking a Principal Structural Engineer (Thermal Analyst / Sr. Principal Structural Engineer (Thermal Analyst) to perform thermal analysis, design, and/or test of one or more moderately complex or portions of complex materials, structural components, and functional systems of company products. This position role will be based in Oxnard, CA.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Perform orbital thermal analysis, design, and/or test of one or more moderately complex or portions of complex materials, structural components, and functional systems of company products.
• Analyze requirements for materials, structural components, or functional systems.
• Create system level thermal models of assemblies and detailed thermal models of subassemblies and individual parts.
• Perform steady state and transient thermal analysis to predict temperatures, heat flows, and heat sinking requirements.
• Release results as “technical documents” after review by the senior members of the team.
• Analyses will be performed utilizing hand calculations and software packages such as AutoCAD with Thermal Desktop, RadCAD and SINDA/FLUINT
• Possible task planning, preparing reports, conducting technical peer reviews, conducting test programs and mentoring junior engineers.

Basic Qualifications Level 3:

• 5 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM discipline; 3 years of relevant experience with a Masters' degree; 0 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Minimum of 3 years of experience using Thermal Desktop software (C&R Technologies)
• Must be a U.S. Citizens. 

Basic Qualifications Level 4:

• 9 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM discipline; 7 years of relevant experience with a Masters' degree; 4 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Minimum of 3 years of experience using Thermal Desktop software (C&R Technologies)
• Must be a U.S. Citizens.

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