# Thermal / Structures Engineer

You’ll own the environmental verification for our 2027 lunar payload, ensuring it withstands launch loads, landing shock, vacuum, and the thermal extremes of the lunar surface. This role is the analytical backbone of the team. What you’ll do: Build and maintain the thermal model for the full payload, electronics thermal management, and lunar surface boundary conditions. Run structural FEA for launch vibration, acoustic loads, landing shock, and handling/transport. Drive design trades with the mechanical and avionics engineers: your models inform their decisions on materials, mounting, insulation, and heat rejection. Support thermal-vacuum and vibration test campaigns: predict performance, compare to test data. What we’re looking for: Strong FEA background (ANSYS, Nastran, Abaqus, or similar) for both structural and thermal analysis. Experience with spacecraft or launch vehicle thermal environments: conduction networks, radiation exchange, transient analysis. Understanding of structural dynamics: random vibration, shock spectra, modal analysis, and how they drive hardware design. Ability to make engineering judgments under uncertainty: Class D means we accept more risk, but that req

- **Id**: 1238826
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/galactic-resource-utilization-space-inc-thermal-structures-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Hawthorne, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T16:31:24Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T09:42:23Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1704
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Hotels & Resorts, Space Services

## Company

- **Id**: 2172420
- **Name**: GRU Space
- **Domain**: gru.space
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/gru-space>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 67000
- **Max usd**: 120000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 4343

## Technologies

- **Abaqus** — Optional: no
- **ANSYS** — Optional: no
- **GPT-5** — Optional: no
- **Nastran** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T16:31:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 11
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.383
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 23
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:tail, crowd:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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