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Senior Thermal Engineer

Santa Clara, CA, us💼 Full-time💰 $180,000–$275,000🗓 2026-06-09 → 2026-07-31

Core

Designing thermal cooling strategies and performing analysis for high-end switching products in data center environments.

Role type

Senior IC thermal engineer (electronic cooling)

Builds

High-performance switching products for data centers

Domain

Data center networking / Electronic cooling

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Thermal design and analysis of electronic appliances, CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), FEA (Finite Element Analysis), liquid cooling system design (cold plate, open/closed loop), heat transfer modes (conduction, convection, radiation), thermal airflow testing, vendor selection for thermal components, meshing and convergence analysis

Preferred skills

ProEngineer (PTC Creo), Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering

Technologies

Icepak, FloTHERM, SmartCFD, ProEngineer (PTC Creo)

Responsibilities

Develop thermal cooling strategies for next-generation switching products, perform complete thermal analysis and design using simulation tools, support thermal analysis requests from hardware and product teams, conduct engineering experimental tests to verify designs and correlate with computational results

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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