Thermal & Mechanical Component Quality Engineer – Data Center

Meta; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta's Infrastructure Hardware team seeks a Component Quality Engineer specializing in thermal and mechanical systems to own the quality lifecycle for heat sinks, fans, chassis structures, and cooling assemblies in data center hardware.

You will drive qualification, failure analysis, and continual improvement with design, supply chain, and manufacturing teams to ensure reliability and manufacturability at scale.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in component quality engineering, hardware reliability engineering, or mechanical/thermal engineering within data center/server hardware environments.
• Experience with thermal and mechanical qualification methodologies and reliability testing standards such as JEDEC, IPC, ASTM, or equivalent.
• Experience performing failure analysis (FMEA, RCA) for mechanical/thermal components and driving corrective actions with suppliers.
• Experience with tolerance analysis and design-for-reliability principles in thermal management systems or mechanical assemblies.
• Experience using data analysis to evaluate reliability trends, qualification results, and supplier metrics.

Responsibilities

• Lead qualification activities for thermal and mechanical parts (fans, heat sinks, chassis structures, cooling assemblies).
• Define and execute qualification test plans for thermal performance, mechanical stress, vibration, shock, and environmental reliability.
• Conduct FMEA and RCA for component escapes and drive corrective actions with suppliers.
• Collaborate with design engineers to review specs, tolerances, and thermal budgets for reliability/manufacturability.
• Develop and maintain quality metrics, scorecards, and dashboards to track supplier performance and field reliability trends.
• Partner with supply chain to assess new suppliers, conduct audits, and manage engineering change requests affecting performance.
• Analyze field returns and reliability data to identify systemic risks and mitigate across components.
• Contribute to setting team quality standards and qualification methodologies for thermal/mechanical components.
• Communicate status and risk to hardware program teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and improve qualification processes and supplier engagement.

Skills

Data analysis

FMEA

Root cause analysis

Design-for-reliability

Supplier collaboration

Tools

CFD

FEA

JEDEC

IPC

ASTM

Job description

Meta's Infrastructure Hardware team seeks a Component Quality Engineer specializing in thermal and mechanical systems to own the quality lifecycle for heat sinks, fans, chassis structures, and cooling assemblies in data center hardware.

You will drive qualification, failure analysis, and continual improvement with design, supply chain, and manufacturing teams to ensure reliability and manufacturability at scale.