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Thermal /Mechanical Hybrid Engineer

San Jose💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-11 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design and optimize direct-to-chip cold plate modules and water cooling systems for high-performance AI inference hardware.

Role type

Senior IC thermal/mechanical hybrid engineer

Builds

Direct-to-chip cold plate modules, water cooling manifolds, CDUs, and heat exchangers for data center AI systems

Domain

Hardware infrastructure for frontier AI inference

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

mechanical design, thermal simulation, water cooling system design, cold plate design, thermal interface material (TIM) selection, GD&T, DFM/DFA principles

Preferred skills

advanced thermal cooling concepts (phase change), cross-functional collaboration

Technologies

NX, Creo, CATIA, Fluent

Responsibilities

Lead design and optimization of direct-to-chip cold plate modules; develop water cooling solutions including internal manifolds and heat exchangers; run liquid thermal simulations to analyze performance; oversee testing and validation of thermal management systems; create comprehensive design documentation.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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