Thermal Engineer

Roboticsconnected; Mountain View (WY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Roboticsconnected seeks an experienced Thermal Engineer to model and optimize thermal systems for complex electronics. You will develop conduction, convection, and air-cooled solutions, evaluate performance with plots, and propose improvements using advanced materials like vapor chambers and heat pipes.

Strong background in CFD with FloEFD is required. You will design convective and conductive solutions, run transient and steady-state CFD analyses, and provide actionable recommendations such as

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in thermal analysis and modeling of complex systems including silicon packages, PCBs, and fans.
• Proficiency with CFD modeling in Siemens FloEFD including transient and steady-state analysis.
• Understanding of CFD model optimization for reducing run time through meshing strategy and component interaction.

Responsibilities

• Develop thermal models of conduction, natural convection, and forced air cooled systems.
• Provide design feedback via plots and screenshots of thermal behavior and air flow with recommendations to improve performance.
• Design convective and conductive thermal solutions including fans, heatsinks, vapor chambers, TIMs, and TECs.

Skills

Thermal analysis

CFD modeling

Heat transfer fundamentals

Thermal management design

Conduction/Convection/Air cooling

Education

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or related field

Tools

Siemens FloEFD

Job description

Thermal Engineer

What you'll do:

• Developing and running thermal models of conduction, natural convection, and forced air cooled systems.
• Providing design feedback via plots and screenshots of thermal behavior and air flow, along with recommendations for how to improve performance.
• Designing convective thermal solutions including fans, heatsinks, and vapor chambers, along with conductive thermal solutions including TIMs and TECs.

What you have:

• 5+ years of experience with thermal analysis and modeling of complex systems including silicon packages, PCBs, and fans.
• Proficiency modeling CFD in Siemens FloEFD including transient and steady state analysis.
• Understanding of CFD model optimization for reducing run time (meshing strategy, feature resolution, understanding how different components affect the thermal stack, etc).
• Experience debugging complex models with multiple boundary conditions including solar loading, pressure inlets/outlets, and fixed temperature cabinet walls.
• Experience in designing, speccing, and implementing passive and active thermal management solutions.
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• Strong understanding of heat transfer principles, fluid dynamics and thermodynamics.
• Experience in designing advanced thermal management solutions such as heat pipes, 2D vapour chamber, 3D Vapour chamber, etc.
• Good experience in selection and application of right thermal interface material ( gap filler pad, gels, grease, paste, phase change materials, epoxy etc.)

Nice to have

• Experience with Multiphysics analysis techniques such as thermal expansion in structural simulation, outputting model results into optical analysis (STOP), etc.
• Experience designing thermal solutions for automotive components.
• Deep understanding of the thermomechanical properties and failure modes of glass, laminated composite structures, ceramics, polymers, metals, and adhesives.
• Solidworks modeling experience