Spacecraft Analyst

**About the role** Inflection is seeking an experienced spacecraft analyst to own thermal and structural analysis and guide spacecraft design decisions. This role reports directly to the CTO. This is a full-time, onsite role based out of Inflection’s HQ in Los Angeles, CA. **What you'll do** * Own spacecraft thermal and structural analysis, from requirements through flight hardware qualification and test. * Build and maintain thermal and finite element models for spacecraft, subsystems, and components. * Evaluate on-orbit temperatures, launch loads, vibration responses, and structural margins. * Manage analysis and environmental test campaigns. * Define test requirements and correlate models to test data; diagnose and resolve discrepancies. * Guide practical design changes with other engineers. * Support on-orbit spacecraft operations. **Qualifications** * 5+ years of thermal and/or structural analysis experience supporting the design, fabrication, and test of complex hardware. * Experience in heat transfer, stress analysis, structural dynamics, and numerical modeling. * Experience with spacecraft thermal and structural environments, thermal analysis tools, and FEA. * Hands-on test support and model correlation skills, with demonstrated ownership from initial analysis through test campaign execution and model correlation. * The ability to get hands-on, and an appetite to learn new things.