Principal Thermal Engineer - Aircraft Avionics & Thermal Systems (R3930)
Shield AI · Seattle
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- Company
- Shield AI
- Location
- Seattle
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Posted
- October 13, 2026
About this job
Own thermal architecture, analysis, and design strategy for unmanned aerial vehicle avionics and aircraft-level thermal/fluid systems across programs. Lead cross-functional trade studies and technical decisions, balancing thermal performance with power, weight, volume, reliability, manufacturability, and aircraft integration constraints. Develop and validate analytical, numerical, and computational models for heat transfer and fluid flow using hand calculations and CFD tools such as FloEFD, and establish modeling standards and best practices. Define verification and validation strategies, guiding test planning, instrumentation, and data analysis to correlate models with experimental results and resolve critical performance risks.…
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