Hardware Thermal Engineer
| Company | Meta |
|---|---|
| Location | Austin, TX, USA, Menlo Park, CA, USA |
| Salary | $139000 – $200000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and/or with 6+ years relevant experience in thermal design related to server/hardware or advanced packaging
- Experienced with computational thermal simulation software, such as Flotherm/Future Facilities/Icepak used for optimizing hardware cooling design
- Experience using lab equipment such as data acquisition systems, air flow chambers, and environmental chambers for thermal validation and troubleshooting
- Experience in designing and optimizing thermal cooling solutions, such as custom-made heat sink designs, and/or fan speed control algorithms
- Experience to interpret/create mechanical system schematics by using 3D Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tool
Responsibilities
- Engage with the Hardware Design team to ensure proper thermal kit design from component to system and with the Data Center Operations team to ensure smooth product deployment
- Develop and execute test plans to measure thermal performance/efficiency of hardware and thermal technologies. Quantitatively simulate and analyze hardware cooling schemes
- Design and investigate cutting-edge thermal cooling solutions for advanced hardware systems for large scale deployment. Balance trade offs between design, cost, power and other critical parameters
- Create analytical and numerical models using various Computational Fluid Dynamics tools or relevant simulation tools to describe system thermodynamics and heat transfer
- Engage and lead external vendors including ODM and component vendors on design, test and production
- Develop and publish case studies/technical papers describing thermal analysis of cooling systems and technologies
- Establish the parameters for thermal design/testing, and correlation of the design/test results in order to model predictions
Preferred Qualifications
- M.S./Ph.D. in relevant thermal discipline
- 6+ years relevant experience in thermal design related to advanced cooling solutions
- Familiarity with custom thermal solutions including heat sinks, cold plates, and Thermal Interface Materials (TIM) materials for use in hardware systems
- Familiarity with design and optimization of control systems for components such as fans or pumps
- Familiarity with data center cooling system designs
- Experience in Unix / Linux environment and/or familiarity with scripting and coding in python
- Experience in manufacturing processes such as Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA)
- Experience to create mathematical, computational and numerical models of industrial cooling systems, using MATLAB or comparable tools
- Experience delivering a thermal program from inception/ideation to deployment