Principal, Design Engineering

Summary

As an experienced Thermal Engineer, you will be responsible for the thermal design and development for products for the Hardware Product Solutions team. You possess the ability to work in partnership with hardware, software, and other architects within and outside Celestica to define the best in class products.

Detailed Description

Responsibility:

• Leads efforts to advance thermal development by understanding leading edge cooling technologies.
• Supports and influences the integration of thermal strategy across technical disciplines 
• Expert in thermal design and development for server/storage and network products.
• Provide high quality thermal solution/response to support RFQs 
• Design robust thermal solutions to meet product specifications, and cooperate with Software team to implement fan speed control strategy.
• Conduct thermal simulation analysis from board to system level to verify thermal feasibility/risk.
• Document thermal test plan and perform thermal, air flow/impedance, acoustic measurements.
• Interface with a multi-disciplinary group to define system requirements, and design products. Experience in working in medium sized multidisciplinary development teams.
• Interface with heat sink and air mover vendors to keep up to manage cost, quality and functionality.
• Work with function team to identify root cause of system failure

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

Requirement:

• 12+ years’ experience in thermal design/simulation/test validation for electronic products. Storage/server/switch product experience is preferred.
• 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

Typical Experience

Typical Education

Typical Education:    

• Master’s degree in Engineering, preference giving to candidates with a Master’s degree in Thermodynamic Engineering
• Educational Requirements may vary by Geography

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.