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Senior Thermal Engineer (m/f/d)

Ottobrunn, Germany💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-10 → 2026-09-29

Core

Define the thermal environment and architecture of the vehicle, including active and passive thermal control design for avionic components and payloads.

Role type

Senior IC thermal engineer (aerospace)

Builds

Space launch vehicles and satellite systems

Domain

Aerospace / Thermal engineering

Required skills

Thermal modeling, FEM/FDM/FVM analysis, thermal control design, system-level coupled loads analysis, technical documentation, tool development

Preferred skills

Environmental control system design

Technologies

SIMCenter, STAR-CCM+, Thermal Desktop, ANSYS, Python, MATLAB

Responsibilities

Own vehicle-level thermal architecture, perform thermal coupled loads analysis, develop and correlate thermal models, review component designs for thermal flight readiness, create and maintain specifications and test plans, develop tools and workflows for efficiency, support integration and launch-site operations

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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