Principal, Systems Engineering - Thermal SME

Summary

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Responsible for architecting, implementing, and supporting thermal system solutions for AI centric networking and compute systems, and related products. In this position you will help develop hardware solutions to be integrated into common platform designs including processors, high speed serial interfaces, high power delivery networks, NPUs, GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs, and memory. You will work with HW and FW design, mechanical, power, and validation engineers. You will drive system architecture of end to end thermal design from rack level down to the board level heat sink/coldplate solutions. The successful candidate will work across disciplines to assure thermal designs meet the requirements of the system specification. You will work closely with Celestica multi-disciplinary engineering and manufacturing teams to understand the system requirements and contribute or lead the specification, design, and debug of complex thermal solution systems for datacenter products.

Skills & Responsibilities:

• Engage with customers and key suppliers on leading thermal solution architecture and solutions for high power systems such as AI/ML.
• Act as recognized thermal SME and trusted advisor to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Engage as part of systems team for early engagement with customers on system design concepts and requirements.
• Develop thermal solution concepts with critical insights into trade-offs, risks, and benefits
• Drive related thermal technology roadmap initiatives with ecosystems, early customer engagement, and internal investment activities
• Develop and validate thermal systems requirements between customers and engineering
• Oversight, guidance, and review thermal development activity within engineering to ensure alignment to requirements and assist in key risk management mitigations
• Experience with high power density cooling solutions, liquid cooling, advanced cold plate and cooling loop design, to affect efficient, high density tray and rack level thermal design, including relevant simulations, analysis , test vehicles, and test plans
• Experience with alternative and emerging cooling strategies, their trade-offs, benefits, challenges
• Support engineering technical leads, thermal, power, and SI engineers on constraints, components selection, thermal design, test plans, bring-up and debug as needed.
• Participate in industry organizations and supplier engagements driving leading edge power solutions

Experience:

• 10+ years relevant industry experience
• Strong user of Flotherm as CFD analysis tool. Transient analysis experience is a plus
• Expert in various heat sinks, heat pipe, vapor chamber design/selection, liquid cooling or other advanced cooling technology is a plus
• in-depth experience in various fan speed control methodology and over temperature protection mechanism
• Expert with thermal measurement technology and test tools such as temperature data logger, IR camera, wind tunnel, air speed meter etc.
• Advanced knowledge of Mechanical design tool such as Pro/E considered a plus.
• Advanced knowledge of server/storage/switch system architecture is a plus.
• Broad knowledge of industry standards including SBB, NEBS, GR-63, ASHRAE TC9.9,etc
• Strong customer communications and technical engagement skills. Able to act as trusted advisor in early concept and executions discussions.
• Experience of products development from prototype to mass production.
• Ability to quickly grasp the existing designs and able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Excellent verbal, written communication skills to produce Specifications and Test Plans
• Failure mode analysis

Typical Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Master’s is preferred.
Educational Requirements may vary by Geography.

Travel:

Occasional overnight travel is required

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.