Senior Principal Thermal Engineer - Liquid-Cooling Leader

HITEC; Roseville (CA); Vor Ort; USD 181.000 - 367.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in California is seeking a Senior Principal Thermal Engineer, recognized for advanced liquid cooling expertise to define organization-wide thermal architectures and roadmaps. You will lead complex programs from concept through production, influence senior stakeholders, and mentor engineers to strengthen HPE’s technical community.

The role emphasizes direct liquid cooling expertise, system-level design, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver performance,

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Thermal Sciences, or a closely related engineering discipline; an advanced degree is preferred.
• Typically 15+ years of relevant engineering experience for the Senior Principal level, with extensive hands‑on experience leading electronics thermal design and liquid‑cooling development for complex products.
• Demonstrated technical impact on significant products, programs, or strategic architecture, including successful delivery across multiple NPI cycles.

Aufgaben

• Establish and define organization-wide thermal architectures, design methodologies, specifications, and validation practices for liquid-cooled hardware across multiple platforms and organizations; contribute to long-range technology roadmaps.
• Serve as the go-to technical leader for direct liquid cooling, including cold plates, manifolds, quick disconnects, hoses and piping, pumps, heat exchangers, coolant distribution units, facility-water interfaces, immersion systems, hybrid cooling, and emerging two-phase solutions.
• Lead system-level thermal architecture, analysis, and design from concept and feasibility through qualification, NPI, manufacturing ramp, and sustaining engineering for high-power ASICs, optics, power components, and densely packed electronic modules.
• Perform and direct thermal-fluid CFD modeling using FloTHERM, FloEFD, Macroflow, or equivalent tools; correlate models with test data and translate results into clear design decisions and margin improvements.
• Define fluid, thermal, mechanical, reliability, serviceability, manufacturability, safety, and regulatory requirements, including flow and pressure budgets, pressure drop, temperature uniformity, material and coolant compatibility, corrosion control, leak prevention and detection, contamination control, and failure-response strategies.
• Develop and oversee validation plans and empirical testing for component, subsystem, chassis, rack, and facility interfaces; guide engineers and technicians in instrumentation, test execution, data analysis, and root-cause investigations.
• Review designs and project activities for compliance with technology, quality, reliability, and development standards; drive valuable recommendations and innovations into platform architectures.
• Evaluate and select technologies, suppliers, outsourced development partners, and manufacturing processes; oversee technical deliverables and resolve complex cross-organizational issues.
• Partner with mechanical, electrical, PCB, silicon, optics, firmware, systems, reliability, manufacturing, operations, service, sourcing, and data-center infrastructure teams to optimize total system performance and lifecycle cost.
• Develop schedules, critical deliverables, resource plans, risk assessments, and support requirements for major programs; communicate progress, trade-offs, escalations, and issue analysis to senior and executive stakeholders.
• Influence business leadership, customers, partners, suppliers, and industry standards groups through recognized domain expertise, business acumen, and clear technical communication.
• Drive invention, intellectual property, reusable design practices, and knowledge sharing; mentor less-experienced engineers and actively contribute to the HPE technical community.

Kenntnisse

Liquid cooling

CFD analysis

Thermal architecture

Cross-functional leadership

System-level design

Reliability & safety

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s/Master’s in Mechanical Engineering or related field

Tools

SolidWorks

FloTHERM

FloEFD

Jobbeschreibung

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in California is seeking a Senior Principal Thermal Engineer, recognized for advanced liquid cooling expertise to define organization-wide thermal architectures and roadmaps. You will lead complex programs from concept through production, influence senior stakeholders, and mentor engineers to strengthen HPE’s technical community.

The role emphasizes direct liquid cooling expertise, system-level design, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver performance,