Booster Thermal Lead Jobs

Booster Thermal Lead (Senior–Principal)

Innovien is supporting the work on a major national missile defense program. We're hiring a Booster Thermal Lead to own the thermal analysis effort for the booster vehicle as the program moves toward Critical Design Review, blending hands-on technical ownership with leadership of a small analyst team.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the booster vehicle's thermal analysis effort and own its requirements across the full lifecycle
• Personally perform and review the team's most critical and complex thermal analyses
• Communicate directly with the government customer, defending design decisions, conservatisms, and requirement interpretations
• Translate system-level trajectory and design reference mission inputs into scoped guidance for component-level analysts
• Serve as the critical-path escalation point when booster thermal issues threaten program milestones

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of thermal analysis experience, including leading vehicle-level thermal analysis on launch vehicle or missile programs
• Hands-on ability to build and run thermal analysis in Siemens NX Space Systems Thermal, stepping in personally on critical-path problems
• Working knowledge across booster or missile subsystems such as thermal protective systems, flight termination systems, telemetry systems, or solid rocket motor propellant systems
• Proven ability to communicate and defend technical analysis to a demanding government customer under pushback
• Experience mentoring junior analysts and reviewing component-level work
• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, or related Engineering field (advanced degree a plus)
• Nice to Have:
  Experience proposing alternative test approaches for hardware difficult to qualify under thermal test conditions
• Experience on programs with a similarly demanding government customer

Details:

• Active U.S. Secret clearance required
• Onsite, 5 days/week (9/80 schedule available) — Denver, CO;
  Huntsville, AL;
  Sunnyvale, CA
• W2 Contract through 2030, with potential extension based on program need

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