Hybrid Principal Thermal Engineer

at Infleqtion

• Job title: Principal Thermal Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $160,000 - $200,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Louisville, United States

About the role

• Thermal Engineer overseeing temperature limits for sensor heads in quantum tech. Collaborating with various stakeholders and engaging customers throughout the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Update the existing system-level thermal model with the appropriate fidelity to ensure the physics sequence operates within space environmental constraints
• Conduct regular technical discussions and model reviews of in-house and subcontractor electronic card and enclosure cooling designs, including some of them which have unique thermal requirements
• Develop and test EDU thermal designs for microgravity environments
• Adapt flight thermal designs for microgravity testing
• Serve as a hands-on engineer with experience building both EDU and flight hardware
• Install MLI and bond heaters and thermistors using ASTM-E595 approved materials
• Presenting progress and results to senior management and the end customer
• Execution of modelling, simulation, and analytical efforts required to enable product performance
• Integration of subsystems and their thermal requirements / interfaces
• Identifying and engaging key suppliers
• Following Infleqtion’s Product Lifecycle Process and supporting Phase gate reviews, critical design reviews, and executive updates
• Supporting development of risk management plans and risk resolution, and supporting reliability analysis and continuous improvement
• Coaching and mentoring junior engineers
• Other duties as assigned or required

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required, with a focus in thermal design or a related engineering field
• 6+ years of relevant and progressive experience in similar roles
• Hands on engineer with experience building both EDU and flight hardware
• Experience installing MLI, bonding of heaters and thermistors using ASTM-E595 approved materials
• Leverages AI appropriately; understands limitations of current offerings
• Excellent proficiency in design first principles
• Expert level understanding of opto-mechanics, including free space optical mounting, collimator design, free space and fiber coupled alignment design and tolerancing
• Demonstrated Dfx (design to cost etc.)
• Understanding of ASTM E595 – how to choose materials for space
• Experience designing custom flexure mounts for both optics and instruments
• Tolerance analysis
• Hands on engineer with experience building both EDU and flight hardware
• Uses AI appropriately for leverage; understands limitations of current platforms
• Ability to travel domestically and (potentially) internationally up to 10%

Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, short/long-term disability
• Employer-funded Health Savings Account
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k) match
• Company-paid Life and AD&D Insurance
• Flexible Savings Account
• Paid FMLA, Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Student Loan Repayment
• Equity Package