Thermal Engineer (Falcon, Dragon, & Starfall) is open at SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA. The posting gives a salary of $100K - $118K. Posted on Aug 1, 2026, and still on SpaceX’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Own the thermal design of spacecraft, launch-vehicle, special-program, and component hardware end-to-end: from initial concept and high-level trades, through detailed 3D and reduced-order modeling, into CAD/build, and out to validation against ground test, flight, and orbital data (e.g. on-orbit thermal analysis, thermal protection system (TPS) sizing, heater and coolant-loop design, acceptance/qualification…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on SpaceX’s careers page.
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