Thermal Development Engineer

Graphcore; Bristol; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Bristol is seeking a Thermal Development Engineer to create efficient cooling solutions for electronic products. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in thermal model development, a solid understanding of thermal behaviour, and proficiency in relevant software tools. This role offers a competitive salary, flexible working, and various benefits including private medical insurance and a healthy work environment.

Benefits

Flexible working

Generous annual leave policy

Private medical insurance

Of healthy food and snacks

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Strong experience in development of thermal models for cooling of electronic products.
• Good understanding of thermal behaviour of electronic components.
• High Performance Liquid-Cooled Compute servers knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Develop thermal models from silicon dies to liquid coolant.
• Design experiments to simulate different thermal solutions.
• Collaborate with cold plate vendors and mechanical engineers.

Skills

Thermal model development

Thermal behaviour understanding

Thermo-mechanical effects knowledge

Computational fluid dynamics proficiency

Interpersonal skills

Self-starter mindset

Tools

FlowTherm

Creo

Ansys IcePak

Job description

As a Thermal Development Engineer, you will be working closely with the hardware and package development teams to develop cooling solutions for Graphcore’s integrated circuits, printed circuit boards and server blade components.

You will simulate the thermal behaviour of stacked die integrated circuits, thermal interface materials, PCBs and liquid cooled cold plates.

What you’ll be doing

Graphcore’s Hardware Engineering Team creates both products for sale in volume production and hardware test & validation systems based on Graphcore’s IPU processor. These systems allow Graphcore’s customers to develop leading-edge machine-learning solutions for training and inference.

• development of thermal models from silicon dies to liquid coolant
• design of experiments to simulate different thermal solutions
• optimise thermal performance
• selection of materials
• collaboration with cold plate vendors
• collaboration with server blade and rack mechanical and thermal engineers
• Assist with development air cooled solutions for lab fixtures

What you’ll bring

We appreciate not everyone will meet all of the criteria. If you meet most of the requirements below and believe you can bring value to this role, we’d love to hear from you.

• Strong experience in development of thermal models for cooling of electronic products
• Good understanding of thermal behaviour of electronic components
• Good knowledge and understanding of thermo-mechanical effects of heating on warpage and stress in electronic systems
• proficiency in optimising computational fluid dynamics software and compute farms
• Strong written and oral communications, team-working and interpersonal skills
• A self-starter able to work independently
• High Performance Liquid-Cooled Compute servers
• FlowTherm
• Creo
• Ansys IcePak

What we’ll bring

In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we’re committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.

Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications.