Senior Staff Thermal Design Engineer

Join a world-class team to create high-end electronics cooling solutions for systems such as AI servers, switches, and accelerators. We work collaboratively to design at the leading edge of cooling technology.

About the role

As a member of the Hardware Product Development team, you will partner with hardware, software, and thermal architects within and outside Celestica to define best-in-class products. Celestica fosters a profoundly cooperative and non-confrontational culture.

Responsibilities

• Complete ownership of thermal design for various electronic products from thermal modeling, design, test, and design revision, until transfer to manufacturing.
• Conduct thermal simulations, post-processing, and analysis ranging from chip to facilities level to verify thermal feasibility, risk, and to inform designs.
• Maintain awareness of heat transfer hardware available from all sources, including how it operates and performs, its cost, and how it can be incorporated into products.
• Conceive and implement ways to enhance and extend operation of heat transfer hardware, considering thermal aspects of chip packaging technologies.
• Apply best-in-class fluid flow geometry and technology to cool high heat flux chips.
• Determine and consider the effects of contact resistance and the use of Thermal Interface Materials.
• Apply air cooling when possible and liquid cooling when necessary to achieve full performance and reliability at the lowest cost.
• Size liquid cold plates, heat sinks, heat pipes, air movers, air filters, air ducting, and perforated plates.
• Plan work to achieve full required performance and stay on schedule to support overall product development.
• Reference real-world limitations to inform work, such as manufacturing methods and cost, reliability, variability of incoming parts, and tolerances on all specifications.
• Perform hands-on lab tests of equipment from component to rack and facility level for design and model validation.
• Document thermal test plans, devise and build test stands, including technical support, cooling liquid supply, power delivery, metrology and instrumentation, compute workload, experiment control, and data recording.
• Analyze test data to draw inferences about the equipment tested, applying statistical methods as required to maximize data utilization and test usefulness.
• Work with multi-disciplinary groups to define system requirements and design products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify root causes of system performance.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. Preference given to candidates with a concentration in heat transfer and fluid mechanics.
• Relevant coursework in heat transfer and fluid mechanics.
• Good familiarity with 3D software applications.

Physical Demands

• Duties are performed in a normal office environment.
• May require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator) are frequently required.
• Occasional travel may be required.

Pay

Annual salary range: $176,000 - $224,000 USD base salary.