Thermal Engineer, AI Satellites (Starmind)
SpaceX · Bastrop
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- Company
- SpaceX
- Location
- Bastrop
- Posted
- August 18, 2026
About this job
THERMAL ENGINEER, AI SATELLITES (STARMIND) SpaceX is leveraging its experience deploying and operating the world’s largest satellite constellation to develop Starmind, a new constellation of satellites capturing solar energy in space to power low-cost, high-performance AI compute for Earth. Scaling AI in space is a thermal problem as much as a power and processing problem. With a dense compute payload dissipating hundreds of kilowatts, the thermal system must efficiently transfer heat to large radiators that reject it to space, under solar load, eclipse, and multi-mode AI duty cycles. You will join the Starmind Thermal team, which owns the satellite cooling stack end-to-end.…
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