• Develop thermal cooling strategies for next-generation, high-performance switching products.
• Work independently to perform complete thermal analysis and design using Icepak.
• Support thermal analysis requests from hardware team, product management team and other cross functional teams with either spreadsheet calculations or detailed simulation results.
• Capable of conducting different engineering experimental tests to verify design (e.g., components, system level, etc.) and correlate with computational results.

Required Qualifications:

• MS Degree in Mechanical Engineering - Ph.D. preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of direct professional experience in thermal design and analysis of electronic appliances using Icepak, FloTHERM, SmartCFD, etc.
• Experience with high power (>800W) SoC liquid cooling thermal models and system-level analysis.
• Experience in cold plate liquid cooling design and analysis, open loop or closed loop liquid cooling, CDU at rack level or facility level design and analysis.
• Experience in numerical modeling based on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) (convergence, discretization, meshing).
• Knowledge and familiarity with electronic cooling and challenges of systems within data center environments.
• Knowledge of heat transfer modes; conduction, convection (passive and active), and radiation.
• Thorough understanding of heat sink type/design, heat pipes, vapor chambers, fans, blowers, pumps, thermal interface material. Experience in vendor selection.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Flow and thermal measurement techniques, mechanical (thermal and structural) validation and qualification tests including, Environmental Test (ETE), etc.
• Knowledge of thermal airflow testing, fans, pumps, liquid loop cold plate testing, and augmentation to system thermal simulation models.
• Experience using ProEngineer (PTC Creo) a plus.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.

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