About Us
At Azienda riservata, we are redefining the future of satellite communications
Incubated by ESA BIC Brindisi, previously by PoliHub, and accelerated by Zest (CDP), we are enabling real-time satellite communications for the natural disaster detection, emergency management, space monitoring and defence sectors.
With us, you will take ownership of the core technology that turns satellite data into immediate, decisive action on the ground. If you're ready to see your work directly impact global events, your mission begins here.
The Role
As a Thermal Engineer for Space Payloads, you will not just analyze budgets. You will design the entire thermal control system for next-generation satellite communication systems.
You will define the thermal requirements, select or design the cooling architecture, and validate your hardware for the space environment. You will work side-by-side with RF, mechanical, and electronics engineers to ensure that our communication payload survives and performs under extreme thermal loads.
Your Responsibilities
End-to-End Thermal Design: Design the complete cooling solution for a radio module and an antenna, starting from blank sheet. You define the architecture first.
Thermal Requirements Definition: Derive and write the thermal requirements based on the dissipated power, RF emission duty cycles, orbital environment, and antenna pointing constraints.
RF Payload Cooling: Manage intermittent, high-power thermal loads typical of radio transmission (burst modes, high-PAPR signals). Design passive (heat pipes, radiators, thermal straps) and/or active (loop heat pipes, pumped fluid) cooling systems.
Antenna Thermal Management: Address the unique challenges of cooling an antenna in space: minimal thermal mass, strict thermo-elastic distortion limits (to maintain pointing accuracy), dielectric material constraints, and coupling with the radio module.
Analysis & Validation: Perform thermal analysis and define thermal vacuum test campaigns to correlate