Senior Thermal Design Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Secaucus (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. seeks a Thermal Engineer for the Data Center Platform Engineering Group to drive thermal design and validation for AMD's data center GPUs. You will collaborate across silicon design, board engineering, and validation teams to deliver robust cooling solutions.

The role requires strong heat transfer knowledge, CFD experience, and hands-on lab skills, with opportunities to influence product cycles and performance in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Strong background in heat transfer and fluid dynamics with emphasis on electronics thermal management.
• CFD experience with liquid-cooled systems; Icepak or similar tools required; ANSYS Icepak/AEDT a plus.
• CAD experience; SolidWorks and/or Creo; ability to implement liquid cooling designs for CFD analysis.
• Deep understanding of thermal management design elements including TIM, spreaders, heatsink, vapor chamber, heat pipe, and fan.
• Rack level and Datacenter/server level design experience.
• Experience developing liquid cooling solutions including design of cold plates, liquid interconnects, hoses, manifolds.
• Lab skills: design of experiments, instrumentation, data acquisition, uncertainty analysis.
• Programming: Python, C/C++, MATLAB for data analysis and tool development.
• Excellent communication across engineering and executive levels; cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design thermal solutions for AMD datacenter GPUs.
• Collaborate with silicon, board, and power engineering to create thermal-mechanical solutions from chip to system level.
• Contribute to product lifecycle from concept to mass production.
• Work in a fast-paced product development environment.
• Thermal validation of hardware at chip, card, and system levels.
• Evaluate novel thermal technologies with vendors and internal teams for roadmap alignment.
• Drive process improvements to enable fast time-to-market.

Skills

Heat transfer

Fluid dynamics

Electronics cooling

CFD experience

Python scripting

C/C++

Matlab

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

MS/PhD Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Icepak

ANSYS Icepak

AEDT

SolidWorks

Creo

Job description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences-from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you'll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges-striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond.

Together, we advance your career.

THE ROLE:

As a Thermal Engineer in Data Center Platform Engineering Group (DPEG) Thermal Mechanical Engineering department, you will be responsible for the thermal design, validation and technology development for the AMD Data Center GPU products in this expanding and strategic market for AMD. To accomplish this, you will need to interact with other key engineering teams such as silicon design, boarding engineering, validation, and manufacturing and leaders within AMD, our customers, and our partners.

THE PERSON:

The Thermal Engineer on the Thermal Mechanical Engineering team will have excellent communication skills, planning skills, technical expertise, is a team player, possesses critical problem solving and troubleshooting skills, is a self-starter, and is well organized. They will be market savvy and comfortable in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design thermal solutions to enable AMD's next generation of Datacenter GPUs
• Collaborate with silicon design engineering, board engineering, power engineering and other cross-functional teams to design thermal-mechanical solutions from chip level to system level
• Contribute to the overall product cycle from conceptualization through mass production
• Work in a dynamic and fast‑paced product development environment
• Thermal validation of thermal‑mechanical hardware at chip, card and system level
• Identify and investigate novel thermal technologies and work with vendors and internal teams to evaluate the technologies for alignment to the AMD product roadmap
• Drive process improvements while executing fast time‑to‑market on products.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Strong background in heat transfer and fluid dynamics with emphasis on electronics thermal management. Thorough understanding of electronics cooling technologies; Air cooling and liquid cooling.
• CFD - Experience with CFD for liquid‑cooled systems with Icepak or similar tools is required. CFD experience in ANSYS Icepak or AEDT is a plus.
• CAD - Experience with SolidWorks and/or Creo is required. Ability to implement liquid cooling designs in Creo or SolidWorks for CFD analysis is a plus.
• Deep understanding of thermal management design elements including TIM, spreaders, heat sink, vapor chamber, heat pipe, and fan
• Rack level and Datacenter and server level design experience.
• Experience developing liquid cooling solutions including design of cold plates, liquid interconnects, implementing quick disconnects, hoses, and manifolds.
• Lab Skills: Experience with design of experiments, instrumentation, data acquisition, and data analysis, including uncertainty analysis, is a plus.
• Programming Skills: Ability to write scripts in programming languages (e.g., Python, C/C++, MATLAB) for data analysis and tool development is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills at the engineering and executive levels, including a proven track record of working across organization boundaries to define requirements, solve complex problems and drive programs to successful completion

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• MS/PhD in Mechanical Engineering

LOCATION:

Sacaucus, NJ

AMD benefits at a glance.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.