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Senior Thermal Engineer
Company | Arista Networks |
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Location | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
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Salary | $135000 – $181000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Master’s |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- MS Degree in Mechanical Engineering – Ph.D. preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years of direct professional experience in thermal design and analysis of electronic appliances using Icepak, FloTHERM, SmartCFD, etc.
- Experience with high power (>800W) SoC liquid cooling thermal models and system-level analysis.
- Experience in cold plate liquid cooling design and analysis, open loop or closed loop liquid cooling, CDU at rack level or facility level design and analysis.
- Experience in numerical modeling based on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) (convergence, discretization, meshing).
- Knowledge and familiarity with electronic cooling and challenges of systems within data center environments.
- Knowledge of heat transfer modes; conduction, convection (passive and active), and radiation.
- Thorough understanding of heat sink type/design, heat pipes, vapor chambers, fans, blowers, pumps, thermal interface material. Experience in vendor selection.
- Flow and thermal measurement techniques, mechanical (thermal and structural) validation and qualification tests including, Environmental Test (ETE), etc.
- Knowledge of thermal airflow testing, fans, pumps, liquid loop cold plate testing, and augmentation to system thermal simulation models.
- Experience using ProEngineer (PTC Creo) a plus.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Develop thermal cooling strategies for next-generation, high-performance switching products.
- Work independently to perform complete thermal analysis and design using Icepak.
- Support thermal analysis requests from hardware team, product management team and other cross functional teams with either spreadsheet calculations or detailed simulation results.
- Capable of conducting different engineering experimental tests to verify design (e.g., components, system level, etc.) and correlate with computational results.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using ProEngineer (PTC Creo) a plus.