About the Role
We are seeking an innovative and experienced Senior Liquid Cooling Thermal Engineer, including manifold design and its connectivity, to lead the thermal architecture, analysis, and validation of high-performance computing and communication hardware. This role requires deep expertise in electronics thermal management, system-level integration, and advanced cooling technologies, along with the ability to drive thermal design decisions across silicon, package, module, and system boundaries.
The Senior Thermal Engineer will work closely with mechanical, electrical, packaging, and manufacturing teams to ensure thermal solutions meet performance, reliability, and scalability requirements from concept through high-volume production..
Key Responsibilities
- Thermal Architecture & Design:
- Define and drive liquid cooling thermal architecture for rack-mounted systems, compute modules, and advanced packages. Establish thermal requirements, budgets, and margins to meet system performance and reliability goals.
- Thermal Modeling & Simulation:
- Develop and execute steady-state and transient thermal simulations at die, package (CoWoS, SoW), module, and system levels. Use simulation results to guide design tradeoffs, cooling technology selection, and system integration decisions.
- Advanced Cooling Solutions:
- Design and evaluate thermal solutions including cold plates, heat sinks, heat spreaders, manifolds, TIMs, and system airflow. Support innovation in liquid cooling approaches for high-power, high-density electronics.
- Prototyping & Testing:
- Define thermal test strategies and instrumentation plans. Execute thermal characterization, power mapping, and correlation of lab data with simulation results. Drive design iterations based on test outcomes.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Partner closely with mechanical, electrical, packaging, and manufacturing engineers to ensure thermal considerations are integrated into system, enclosure, and package designs. Collaborate with external partners (ODMs, OSATs, cooling vendors) as needed.
- Design for Manufacturability & Risk Mitigation:
- Apply thermal DFM principles early in the design cycle. Participate in FMEA activities, identify thermal risks, and lead mitigation strategies to address reliability, yield, and manufacturability challenges.
- Documentation & Communication:
- Develop comprehensive thermal documentation, including requirements, specifications, simulation reports, test plans, and validation summaries. Present findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Quality & Reliability Support:
- Support qualification and reliability testing efforts, including thermal cycling and stress testing, and ensure compliance with relevant industry standards.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical/Thermal Engineering, or a rela