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Cisco

Makes networking gear and security software

Thermal Engineering Technical Leader

Thermal & Fluids EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience troubleshooting and performing thermal validation with data acquisition systems, airflow, and environmental chambers, and familiarity with manufacturing processes for key liquid-cooling components.
  • Ability to lead by influence without a direct reporting chain and advise executive decision makers.
  • Ability to work independently across multiple projects and priorities.
  • Ability to respond to changing demands, anticipate future problems, and recommend preventive actions.
  • Communication, project management, and metrics design skills.
  • Ability to create presentations for diverse audiences and executive levels to support agile decision-making.
  • Bachelor of Science in Mechanical/Thermal Engineering or Chemical Engineering.
  • At least 10 years of experience in design, simulation, and testing of thermal solutions for electronic devices and systems.
  • Extensive experience with advanced air-cooling technologies, including vapor chambers, remote heat sinks, thermal interface materials, and fans or fan trays.
  • Experience with liquid cooling and/or immersion cooling.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and lead the system thermal technology roadmap with microelectronics packaging suppliers, thermal interface material suppliers, cooling solution providers, and internal partners to meet product needs.
  • Develop a quality strategy for the liquid-cooling manufacturing process.
  • Investigate innovative liquid-cooling solutions for hardware systems at large scale.
  • Analyze tradeoffs in thermal performance across package design elements and chip thermal gradients using experimental test data.
  • Develop test plans and qualification requirements to ensure the mechanical and manufacturing adaptability of thermal cooling solutions, including pumps, heat pipes, vapor chambers, heat sinks, and liquid cooling.
  • Engage external original design manufacturers and component vendors on design, testing, and production.
  • Develop and publish case studies or technical papers describing thermal analysis of cooling systems.
  • Establish parameters for thermal design and testing, and correlate design and test results to model predictions.
  • Contribute to analytical and numerical models using computational fluid dynamics tools to simulate and analyze device-level cooling schemes.
  • Drive supplier ecosystem development and participate in industry consortia and conferences; collaborate with academia and strategic partners to develop new methodologies and influence the company’s industry position.
  • Integrate circuit thermal simulation and testing with system-level cooling technologies.
  • Perform mechanical design validation and testing for electronic assemblies.
  • Coordinate circuit packaging technologies, including ball-grid-array, large-body-size flip-chip ball-grid-array, 2.5D, and 3D packaging.
  • Perform component and system reliability analysis.

Desired Qualifications

  • 15 or more years of relevant proven experience in microelectronics thermal cooling.
  • Experience with JEDEC JESD 51 thermal testing standards.
  • Experience with thermal interface material thermal conductivity testing procedures and microelectronics packaging design and manufacturing processes.

About the Company

Cisco

Makes networking gear and security software

Cisco makes the switches and routers that connect offices, data centers, and cloud services, and it also sells cybersecurity tools and Webex video meetings to businesses and governments. It was one of the first companies to sell routers that let different kinds of computer networks exchange data, and in 2000 it briefly became the world's most valuable company. Customers run its network gear, from Wi-Fi access points to AI data center systems, with Cisco software that sets up and secures the network, while its Splunk unit searches computer logs to catch outages and attacks. Cisco earns money from hardware sales, software subscriptions, and support contracts. It was founded in 1984 and is based in San Jose, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Jose, CA
Founded
1984

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