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Senior Thermal Engineering Technical Leader

San Jose, California, US💼 Full-time💰 $191,400–$191,400🗓 2026-06-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and develop thermal solutions (air cooled or liquid cooled) for high-power ASICs and high-density optical transceivers in Cisco's core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products.

Role type

Senior Thermal Engineering Technical Leader

Builds

Hardware platforms for Cisco's core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products

Domain

Networking hardware / Thermal engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Thermal solution design, CFD simulation (Flotherm/Icepak), thermal testing, system architecture collaboration, mentorship, cross-functional risk analysis, test plan development

Preferred skills

Telecom/compute/networking thermal design, advanced air-cooling technologies (vapor chamber, remote heat sinks), liquid/immersion cooling systems, FEA, 3D MCAD modeling (Creo/NX)

Technologies

Flotherm, Icepak, Creo, NX

Responsibilities

Design thermal solutions for high-power systems, develop package/board/system simulations, perform thermal testing and validation, lead and mentor thermal engineers, collaborate on system architectures, develop test plans and reports

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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