Thermal Engineer - Payload & Optical Terminal

You keep the optics stable. A Tbps-class link holds sub-micron alignment across the whole optical path, and that alignment drifts with temperature. Between high-power EDFAs, modem electronics, and precision optics sharing one assembly, thermal control is what keeps the beam path true — not just what keeps hardware alive. Thermal stability is a first-light problem here, not only a field one.

You own thermal for the terminal and bench now, and extend it to the flight payload as the space segment comes online — across real deployment sites, not a controlled lab. You partner with Optomechanical on structural-thermal-optical behavior and with the amplifier and electronics seats on heat loads.

• Thermal design and analysis for the optical terminal, bench, and — as it comes online — the flight payload.
• Thermal stability tight enough to hold sub-micron alignment (STOP, with Optomechanical and Optical Design).