Senior Thermal Engineer is open at Vast in Long Beach, California, United States. The posting gives a salary of $148K - $210K. Posted on Jun 8, 2026, and still on Vast’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Define the thermal control architecture — trade passive, heat pipe, and pumped fluid loop approaches, radiator sizing and placement Perform system-level and component-level thermal analysis for the satellite bus across all payload configurations Address the high-power thermal challenge — Nvidia compute module drives heat rejection requirements that may force the architecture Contribute first-order thermal models to…
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