Lead Thermal Engineer, Hardware Design
Celestica
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Austin • Texas • United States
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About the role
- Complete ownership of thermal design for various electronic products from thermal modeling, design, test, and design revision, until transfer to manufacturing.
- Conduct thermal simulations, postprocessing, and analysis ranging from chip to facilities level to verify thermal feasibility, risk, and to inform your designs.
- Maintain awareness of heat transfer hardware available from all sources, including how it operates and performs, its cost, and how it can be incorporated into our products.
- Conceive and implement ways to enhance and extend operation of heat transfer hardware.
- Consider the thermal aspects of chip packaging technologies.
- Apply best-in-class fluid flow geometry and technology to cool high heat flux chips.
- Determine and consider the effects of contact resistance and the use of Thermal Interface Materials.
- Apply air cooling when possible and liquid cooling when necessary to achieve full performance and reliability at the lowest cost.
- Size liquid cold plates, heat sinks, heat pipes, air movers, air filters, air ducting, and perforated plates.
- Plan your work to achieve full required performance, and stay on schedule to support overall product development.
- Reference real world limitations to inform your work, such as manufacturing methods and cost, reliability, variability of incoming parts, and tolerances on all specifications.
- Perform hands-on lab tests of equipment from component to rack and facility level for design and model validation.
- Document thermal test plans, devise and build test stands, including techanical support, cooling liquid supply, power delivery, metrology and instrumentation, compute workload, experiment control, and data recording.
- Analyze test data to draw inferences about the equipment tested.
- Apply statistical methods as required to maximize utilization of data and test usefulness.
- Work with multi-disciplinary groups to define system requirements and design products.
- Work with cross-functional teams to identify root causes of system performance.
Requirements
- Must have relevant coursework in heat transfer and fluid mechanics
- good familiarity with 3D software applications
- BA or MBA degree in Engineering
- Preference giving to candidates with a Master’s degree in Thermodynamic Engineering
Benefits
- Equal Opportunity Employer
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Hard Skills & Tools
thermal designthermal modelingthermal simulationsheat transferfluid flow geometrythermal interface materialsliquid coolingair coolingstatistical methodstest data analysis
Soft Skills
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Certifications
BA in EngineeringMBAMaster’s degree in Thermodynamic Engineering