Senior SOC Thermal Engineer for Mobile Cooling

Apple, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Thermal Engineer to design and validate cooling solutions for high-performance SoCs and mobile devices.

You will work with cross-functional teams to optimize thermal performance across product lines and contribute to advanced IC packaging research and development. The role requires extensive experience in thermal design, modeling, testing, and a strong background in silicon devices, packaging solutions, and SoC methodologies.

Qualifications

• BS + 10 years of industry experience.
• MSEE + 10 years of industry experience, preferred.
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities at the senior engineer level.
• Deep expertise in thermal design for silicon devices and packaging solutions.
• Proven experience with IC physical design parameters and their impact on electrical and thermal performance across various packaging technologies.
• Strong understanding of SoC design methodologies, low-power design techniques, and thermal analysis approaches.
• Comprehensive knowledge of advanced packaging assembly processes, including electrical and thermal characteristics.
• Extensive hands-on experience in thermal design, analysis, and validation of advanced cooling solutions for high-power SoCs.
• Background in thermal testing for semiconductor devices, packages, PCBs, or mobile products
• Proficiency with industry-standard tools including Ansys IcePak, Sentinel-TI, Fluent, Cadence Allegro, and RedHawk.

Responsibilities

• This position is responsible for thermal analysis and design of thermal solutions to address chip energy efficiency and performance scaling.
• Providing thermal modeling solutions to mobile devices at silicon die and semiconductor package levels.
• Analyzing simulation and measurement results to enhance product thermal management.
• Integrate cooling solutions to next generation SOC architecture design.

Skills

Thermal design

Leadership

SoC design

Low-power design

Thermal analysis

Thermal testing

Education

Bachelor of Science

MS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Ansys IcePak

Sentinel-TI

Fluent

Cadence Allegro

RedHawk

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a Thermal Engineer to design and validate cooling solutions for high-performance SoCs and mobile devices.

You will work with cross-functional teams to optimize thermal performance across product lines and contribute to advanced IC packaging research and development. The role requires extensive experience in thermal design, modeling, testing, and a strong background in silicon devices, packaging solutions, and SoC methodologies.