Thermal Engineer, AI Satellites (Starmind) is open at SpaceX in Bastrop, TX. The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $194K. Posted on Aug 18, 2026, and still on SpaceX’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Own conjugate heat-transfer (CHT) and thermal-fluid analysis of high-performance cold plates, heat exchangers, and radiator channels for STARMIND satellites Own the system 0-D/1-D thermal-fluid network that sizes and balances the cooling loop: flow split, ΔP budget, loop ΔT, pump operating point Drive cooling-loop architecture trades with hardware and vehicle-level thermal teammates Co-evolve geometry, materials and…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on SpaceX’s careers page.
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