Staff Thermal Engineer

General Overview

Job Title:  Staff Engineer, Hardware Design
Functional Area:  Engineering (ENG)
Career Stream:  Design Engineering Hardware (DHW)
Role:  Staff Engineer (SEN)
Job Code:  SEN-ENG-DHW
Job Band: 10
Direct/Indirect Indicator:  Indirect

Summary

Hardware Design Engineer works with cross functional teams with other designers, customers, manufacturing engineering and project leadership to ensure robust and high quality product development. Enhance designs with feedback from reviews in areas such as manufacturing, test, supply chain, reliability, industrial design and simulations. Provide support throughout the manufacturing process of the electrical/mechanical system that they have designed.

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Responsible for thermal solutions design to meet product requirements
• Conduct the detailed thermal assessment by calculation and simulation analysis to ensure the optimal thermal solution is implemented.
• Responsible for delivering comprehensive thermal proposals for RFQ technical response and presenting thermal proposals to customers
• Work closely with heat sink vendors to develop cost-efficient heat sink solutions to meet performance and cost targets.
• Provide a power-saving fan speed control strategy and work closely with the software team to ensure fan speed control is implemented.
• Participate in thermal technology research and development to meet the thermal requirements of future IT equipment.
• Provide innovative and creative solutions to resolve thermal challenges and issues
• Establish and improve thermal processes and guidelines.
• Responsible for thermal test validation of IT equipments including server/storage/switch product.
• Set-up thermal test environment and execute the thermal test including wind tunnel test and temperature test.
• Work with other function team to resolve thermal relevant issues.
• Document comprehensive thermal test plan and report.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Minimum 10 years experience in thermal design/simulation/test validation for data centre IT equipment
• Strong user of Flotherm as CFD analysis tool for performing steady state simulation analysis. Transient analysis is a plus
• Expertise in various heat sinks, heat pipes, Vapor chamber design/selection as well as Air mover,
• TIM selection, liquid cooling or other advanced cooling technology experience is a plus
• Expertise and experience in various fan speed control methodologies and over-temperature protection mechanism
• Familiar with thermal measurement technology and test tools such as temperature data logger, IR camera, wind tunnel, air speed meter, etc.
• Familiar with Mechanical design tools such as Creo for 3D model checks, tolerance analysis methodology for heat sink retention design is a plus
• Familiar with industry standard including NEBS, GR-63, ASHRAE, MSA,etc
• Server/storage/switch product experience is preferred.
• Familiar with fluid dynamic and heat transfer knowledge
• Hands on experience on validation test of various fan speed control algorithm and over temperature protection mechanism
• Good skills in thermal test data analysis and report

Physical Demands

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

Typical Experience

• 7 to 10 years of related experience in similar job roles

Typical Education

• Bachelor's Degree

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.