SR Thermal Engineer

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As a Sr. Thermal Engineer in the Data Center Platform Engineering (DPEG) Thermal Mechanical Engineering department, you will be responsible for the thermal design and validation for the AMD Data Center GPU products in this expanding and strategic market for AMD. To accomplish this, you will need to interact with other key engineering teams such as silicon design, board engineering, validation, and manufacturing within AMD.

• Team player and self‑starter, who possesses critical problem‑solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication skills, planning skills, and technical expertise.
• Market savvy and comfortable in a fast‑paced, multi‑tasking environment.

The Sr. Thermal Engineer in the Thermal Mechanical Engineering team will be responsible for the end‑to‑end development and delivery of thermal and/or mechanical solutions for the GPU and associated platforms. The successful candidate will have a thermal and mechanical development background with silicon level or system level experience. They will integrate into a global development team in delivering commercially viable products (silicon to systems) to the marketplace in a timely and cost‑effective manner.

• Thermal validation of thermal‑mechanical hardware at chip, card and system level.
• Contribute to the overall product cycle from conceptualization through mass production.
• Work in a dynamic and fast‑paced product development environment.
• Develop and execute test plans for heat sinks, cold plates, and server‑level cooling solutions.
• Perform air / liquid flow and pressure drop measurements, temperature mapping, and thermal stress tests.
• Drive process improvements while executing fast time‑to‑market on products.
• Analyze test results to identify thermal bottlenecks and propose design optimizations.
• Generate detailed reports and present findings.

The selected candidate will use his/her proven technical skills to ensure the engineering team continuously innovates, uses 'best practices', and adds value for its customers. Key qualifications required include:

• Strong background in heat transfer and fluid dynamics with emphasis on electronics thermal management.
• Datacenter server and rack level thermal test experience is preferred.
• Experience with validation of liquid‑cooled systems including component and system level test.
• Understanding of thermal management design elements including TIM, spreaders, heat sink, vapor chamber, heat pipe, and fan.
• CFD—Experience with CFD for liquid‑cooled systems with Icepak, Flotherm etc. is desired.
• CAD—Experience with Solid Works and/or Creo is required. Ability to implement liquid cooling designs in Creo or Solid Works for CFD analysis is a plus.
• Lab Skills—Experience with Design of Experiments, instrumentation, data acquisition and data analysis is required.
• Ability to write scripts in programming languages (i.e. Python, Lab View etc.) for data analysis & tool development.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering, Master’s preferred.

Secaucus, NJ

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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