Lead thermal engineering for aircraft avionics, defining architecture, analysis, and qualification.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Serve as technical owner and authority for avionics thermal management across V-BAT, from concept through design, analysis, qualification, and production.
Define avionics thermal architecture, derive thermal requirements, and establish thermal environments and interface requirements for avionics bays, enclosures, and components.
Develop, review, and approve analytical, numerical, and computational heat transfer and fluid flow models using hand calculations and CFD tools such as FloEFD.
Set modeling standards, assumptions, and margin policies for the team.
Lead trade studies, system architecture decisions, and risk assessments.
Requirements
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
B.S. in Aerospace Engineering
Nice to have: M.S. in a relevant engineering discipline
Nice to have: high-altitude aircraft avionics cooling
Nice to have: aerospace environmental and airworthiness requirements
Lead and develop a team of engineers responsible for environmental control systems, aircraft thermal management, and associated fluid and heat-transfer hardware on the X-BAT program.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Manage, mentor, and develop individual contributors; set goals, give feedback, support growth, and build a high-trust, high-standard team.
Set priorities, ownership, staffing, and execution cadence for X-BAT and Group 5 work; remove blockers and manage dependencies.
Guide ECS and thermal architecture, trades, and design reviews across thermal environments, cooling, airflow, ducting, heat exchangers, fluid circuits, and related hardware.
Set expectations for requirements, reviews, verification, risk management, configuration control, and design release through flight-ready hardware.
Resolve interfaces with structures, propulsion, avionics, EWIS, payloads, manufacturing, systems engineering, and test teams.
Requirements
B.S. or M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline
As a Staff (L4) Aircraft Thermal Systems Engineer, you will take full technical ownership of thermal analysis, design, and vehicle integration for a Group 5 UAV fighter aircraft.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Requirements
B.S. or M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
related technical discipline
Nice to have: high-altitude aircraft thermal management
Lead the technical direction, architecture, and development of aircraft avionics thermal management systems.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Own thermal architecture, analysis, and design strategy for unmanned aerial vehicle avionics and aircraft-level thermal/fluid systems across programs.
Lead cross-functional trade studies and technical decisions, balancing thermal performance with power, weight, volume, reliability, manufacturability, and aircraft integration constraints.
Develop and validate analytical, numerical, and computational models for heat transfer and fluid flow using hand calculations and CFD tools such as FloEFD, and establish modeling standards and best practices.
Define verification and validation strategies, guiding test planning, instrumentation, and data analysis to correlate models with experimental results and resolve critical performance risks.
Serve as a technical authority in executive-level briefings, design reviews, and customer discussions, communicating complex findings and driving alignment on technical direction.
Requirements
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related discipline
Nice to have: M.S. or Ph.D. in a relevant engineering discipline
Nice to have: high altitude aircraft avionics cooling
Engineer II, Avionics Thermal Engineering (R5298)
f7d8749a-72d6-407c-bf98-292ea630c73a · Posted Oct 13, 2026
Own the design, analysis, and integration of aircraft avionics thermal management systems and electronics cooling.
Responsibilities
Own thermal solutions for unmanned aerial vehicle avionics including design, analysis, and test.
Develop and validate analytical, numerical, and computational models for heat transfer and fluid flow using hand calculations and CFD tools such as FloEFD.
Provide technical leadership in trade studies, system architecture decisions, and risk assessments.
Drive test planning, instrumentation, and data analysis to correlate models with experimental results.
Guide cross-disciplinary teams in applying thermal/fluid fundamentals.
Requirements
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
related discipline
M.S. in a relevant engineering discipline (preferred)
Nice to have: high altitude aircraft avionics cooling
Lead the design, analysis, and integration of aircraft avionics thermal management systems, with opportunities to flex into aircraft‑level thermal and fluid systems.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Contribute to thermal analysis and design efforts for unmanned aerial vehicle avionics and thermal/fluid systems.
Develop and validate analytical, numerical, and computational models for heat transfer and fluid flow using hand calculations and CFD tools such as FloEFD.
Drive test planning, instrumentation, and data analysis to correlate models with experimental results.
Communicate technical findings clearly through executive‑level briefings, design reviews, and written reports.
Senior Thermal Engineer responsible for the design, analysis, and integration of aircraft avionics thermal management systems and electronics cooling.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Own thermal solutions for unmanned aerial vehicle avionics including design, analysis, and test.
Develop and validate analytical, numerical, and computational models for heat transfer and fluid flow using hand calculations and CFD tools such as FloEFD.
Provide technical leadership in trade studies, system architecture decisions, and risk assessments.
Drive test planning, instrumentation, and data analysis correlate models with experimental results.
Guide cross-disciplinary teams in applying thermal/fluid fundamentals.
Requirements
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related discipline
Nice to have: M.S. in a relevant engineering discipline
Nice to have: high altitude aircraft avionics cooling and thermal design
As a Senior Staff Thermal Engineer at Shield AI, you will lead the design, analysis, and integration of aircraft avionics thermal management systems, specifically high voltage, high power systems using custom power electronics and energy storage.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Own thermal analysis and design efforts for unmanned aerial vehicle avionics including custom power electronics
Develop and validate analytical, numerical, and computational models for heat transfer and fluid flow using hand calculations and CFD tools such as FloEFD
Provide technical leadership in trade studies, system architecture decisions, and risk assessments
Lead cross-functional teams designing power electronic circuits and environmental enclosures
Provide design requirements that impact circuit part selection, board layout, material selection, and other design aspects
Staff Engineer, Thermal EngineeringNewf7d8749a-72d6-407c-bf98-292ea630c73a · Dallas, US