Thermal Engineer

What you'll do:

• Developing and running thermal models of conduction, natural convection, and forced air cooled systems.
• Providing design feedback via plots and screenshots of thermal behavior and air flow, along with recommendations for how to improve performance.
• Designing convective thermal solutions including fans, heatsinks, and vapor chambers, along with conductive thermal solutions including TIMs and TECs.

What you have:

• 5+ years of experience with thermal analysis and modeling of complex systems including silicon packages, PCBs, and fans.
• Proficiency modeling CFD in Siemens FloEFD including transient and steady state analysis.
• Understanding of CFD model optimization for reducing run time (meshing strategy, feature resolution, understanding how different components affect the thermal stack, etc).
• Experience debugging complex models with multiple boundary conditions including solar loading, pressure inlets/outlets, and fixed temperature cabinet walls.
• Experience in designing, speccing, and implementing passive and active thermal management solutions.
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• Strong understanding of heat transfer principles, fluid dynamics and thermodynamics.
• Experience in designing advanced thermal management solutions such as heat pipes, 2D vapour chamber, 3D Vapour chamber, etc.
• Good experience in selection and application of right thermal interface material ( gap filler pad, gels, grease, paste, phase change materials, epoxy etc.)

Nice to have

• Experience with Multiphysics analysis techniques such as thermal expansion in structural simulation, outputting model results into optical analysis (STOP), etc.
• Experience designing thermal solutions for automotive components.
• Deep understanding of the thermomechanical properties and failure modes of glass, laminated composite structures, ceramics, polymers, metals, and adhesives.
• Solidworks modeling experience