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Thermal Engineering Technical Leader

San Jose, California, US💼 Full-time💰 $162,500–$162,500🗓 2026-09-10 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the design, simulation, validation, and production readiness of product-level liquid and air-cooled thermal solutions for high-performance networking and compute platforms.

Role type

Senior IC Thermal Engineering Technical Leader

Builds

Liquid cooling systems (cold plates, CDUs, manifolds, pumps) and air-cooled solutions (heat pipes, vapor chambers) for Cisco ASIC, optical, and power systems.

Domain

Networking hardware / Thermal management / Electronics cooling

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Thermal/mechanical design for electronics, Liquid cooling system design, Air-cooled solution design, CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), Simulation-to-test correlation, Thermal data acquisition and validation, Cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

Microelectronics thermal management, Productizing liquid cooling solutions, Component packaging knowledge (BGA, Flip Chip, 2.5D/3D IC), System reliability analysis

Technologies

CFD, Thermal data acquisition tools, Cold plates, CDUs, Heat pipes, Vapor chambers

Responsibilities

Define design parameters for thermal solutions, Correlate physical testing with simulation models, Roadmap next-generation thermal strategies, Improve qualification and specification standards

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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