Principal Engineer, Aircraft Thermal
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Dallas, Texas / San Diego, California / RemoteFull-TimePrincipal
Salary194,094 - 291,140 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- Minimum 12 years
Requirements
- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related discipline.
- Minimum 12 years of professional experience in avionics or electronics thermal engineering.
- Deep expertise in heat transfer (conduction, convection, radiation) and fluid mechanics.
- Advanced understanding of active and passive cooling solutions and their integration at the component and system level.
- Advanced knowledge of thermal management techniques for aircraft bays, engine bays, and hot surfaces.
- Proficiency with thermal analysis and CFD tools (e.g., FloEFD, STAR-CCM+).
- Proficiency with CAD design tools such as NX, SolidWorks, or similar.
- Demonstrated ability to apply first-principles reasoning to complex engineering problems.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with experience presenting to executives and customers.
Responsibilities
- Lead thermal analysis and characterization efforts for unmanned aerial vehicle aircraft-level thermal systems.
- Architect and validate analytical, numerical, and computational models for heat transfer and fluid flow using hand calculations, finite difference methods, and CFD tools such as FloEFD.
- Provide leadership in trade studies, system architecture decisions, requirements generation, and technical risk assessments.
- Define and oversee test planning, instrumentation, and data analysis to correlate models with experimental results.
- Mentor and guide cross-disciplinary teams in applying thermal/fluid fundamentals.
- Communicate technical findings through executive-level briefings, design reviews, and technical reports.
- Proactively identify program risks, propose solutions, and influence aircraft thermal design.
- Represent Shield AI in technical reviews, proposals, and customer interactions.
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