Senior Structural & Thermal Engineer

About the role

The Structural & Thermal Engineer will take full ownership of structural analysis and thermal subsystem design for satellite instruments. This role involves turning CAD designs into analysis models to ensure hardware survives launch and orbit conditions. The engineer will manage the entire lifecycle from initial FEM mesh creation to final thermal-vacuum testing.

Responsibilities

• Define requirements and load levels for payload units
• Build structural FEM models of satellite systems and subsystems directly from CAD
• Run static, modal, random vibration, sine and shock analyses
• Plan and execute environmental test campaigns including vibration, shock, and thermal vacuum testing
• Build and run satellite thermal models based on CAD and power consumption profiles
• Define thermal control strategies including MLI design and heater circuit sizing

Required skills

• Structural analysis
• Thermal analysis
• FEM
• NX
• Ansys
• Femap
• Nastran
• Abaqus
• ESATAN-TMS
• Thermal Desktop
• Systema
• Environmental testing
• ECSS standards
• SolidWorks

Nice to have

• Flight heritage
• Small satellites
• Test-to-model correlation
• Python
• LiDAR
• Hyperspectral instruments

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in aerospace or mechanical engineering, or a related field

Benefits

• Gym subsidy
• Deutschlandticket subsidy

About the Company

Airmo is a small, hands-on team working on satellite hardware that contributes to climate-related missions.