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Thermal Engineer Intern
| Company | Astranis |
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| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $29 – $29 |
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| Type | Internship |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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| Experience Level | Internship |
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Requirements
- Currently pursuing a B.S. or M.S. in mechanical, aerospace, or equivalent technical degree (e.g. physics or applied math)
- A passion and enthusiasm for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development
- Demonstrated ability to personally design, build, and test hardware from scratch.
- US Citizenship or Green Card
Responsibilities
- Work together with the engineering team to design, evaluate, build, and test satellite hardware and/or software.
- Support design trades that successfully balance performance margins, resource use, risk, cost, and schedule.
- Perform thermal analysis to varying degrees of fidelity (simplified to detailed) on a variety of different types of hardware such as propulsion components, batteries, high powered electronics, RF components, mechanisms, and printed circuit boards (PCBs).
- Design, evaluate, procure and test thermal solutions such as heaters, heat pipes, thermal interface materials, and surface coatings.
- Develop processes and procedures for integration and assembly which ensure thermal design intent is met. Collaborate with the integration and test team in the installation of thermal hardware as needed.
- Plan and run thermal vacuum testing and verification at the component and spacecraft level.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with CAD
- Experience with analytical software thermal analysis such as ANSYS and Thermal Desktop
- Experience with electronics systems design and packaging
- Experience (projects or previous internships) related to aerospace
