Thermal R&D Engineer

Amphenol Corporation; Valley Green (PA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amphenol Corporation, via its ACS division, seeks a Thermal R&D Engineer in Valley Green, PA to advance power solution thermal management. You will work with cross-functional teams and customers to develop and validate thermal solutions using CFD, modeling, and lab testing.

The role emphasizes collaboration, design guidance, and direct interaction with customer engineering teams, with strong emphasis on communication and problem solving.

Qualifications

• BSME or BSEE (Master's Degree preferred).
• 5+ years of CFD simulation and thermal analysis experience.
• Familiar with EIA, UL standards.
• Strong knowledge of heat transfer, thermal dynamics, and cooling methods.
• Familiar with CFD tools including ANSYS Icepak or FloTHERM.
• Proficient in Creo or SolidWorks for 3D modeling.
• Strong ability to present thermal solutions and results to teams/customers.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide accurate modeling, thermal simulations, and characterization of power products and system architecture.
• Correlate simulation results with test data (lab at Valley Green facility).
• Provide design guidance to customers on power applications against design requirements.
• Perform design feasibility experiments to determine thermal impact of product solutions.
• Build technical relationships with customer engineering and thermal teams.
• Provide world-class technical support to customers.

Skills

CFD simulation

thermal analysis

heat transfer

thermal management

test data correlation

communication skills

presentation skills

Education

BSME/BSEE (Master's preferred)

Tools

ANSYS Icepak

FloTHERM

Creo

SolidWorks

Job description

Amphenol Communications Solutions (ACS), a division of Amphenol Corporation, is a world leader in interconnect solutions for Communications, Mobile, RF, Optics, and Commercial electronics markets. Amphenol Corporation is one of the world’s largest designers and manufacturers of electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors and interconnect systems, antennas, sensors and sensor-based products and coaxial and high-speed specialty cable. ACS has an expansive global presence in research and development, manufacturing, and sales. We design and manufacture a wide range of innovative connectors as well as cable assemblies for diverse applications including server, storage, data center, mobile, RF, networking, industrial, business equipment, and automotive.

As a Thermal R&D Engineer on our Power Solutions R&D engineering team, you will work in collaboration within the cross-functional team and with customers to develop the latest technology for the Power Solutions product portfolio. This position will provide thermal engineering support to our team and our customer's program, and associated engineers. The role is responsible for the use of thermal models/analyses, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations, and lab test correlation to drive thermal management of our product development and product solutions for our customers. The position will be located in Valley Green, PA

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide accurate modeling, thermal simulations, and characterization of power products and system architecture
• Correlate simulation results with test data (Certified test lab located at Valley Green facility)
• Provide design guidance and consideration to customers on power applications against their design requirements
• Perform design feasibility experiments and verifications to determine thermal impact of product solutions
• Build technical relationships with our customer's engineering and thermal teams
• Provide world class technical support to our customers

QUALIFICATIONS

• BSME or BSEE (Master's Degree preferred)
• 5+ years of experience in CFD simulation and thermal analysis.
• Familiar with EIA, UL standards.
• Strong knowledge of heat transfer, thermal dynamics, thermal management of electronics, and advanced electronic cooling methods and thermal compliance testing standards
• Familiar with commercial CFD tools, including ANSYS Icepak and/or similar software package (e.g. FloTHERM)
• Proficient in mechanical design and 3D modeling using PTC Creo (formerly Pro/ENGINEER) and/or SolidWorks
• Strong skills of presenting thermal solutions and thermal analysis results to internal design teams, high level leadership, and external customers engineering teams.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills; ability to express technical content clearly and concisely

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Amphenol Corporation is proud of our reputation as an excellent employer. Our focus is to provide the highest level of support and responsiveness to both our employees and our customers, the world's largest technology companies. Amphenol Corporation offers the opportunity for career growth within a global organization. We believe that Amphenol Corporation is unique in that every employee, regardless of his or her position, has the ability to positively impact the business.

Amphenol is an “Equal Opportunity Employer” - Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin. For additional company information please visit our website at https://www.amphenol-cs.com/