Staff R&D Engineer - Technical Project Lead
About The Position
The Staff R&D Engineer serves as the technical leader and engineering owner for sophisticated Data Solutions liquid-cooling product development programs, including in-row and in-rack CDUs, manifolds, and fluid-distribution solutions. The role owns system architecture and technical requirements, translating customer and product needs into engineering specifications, subsystem interfaces, design criteria, and verification plans. The position drives system-level technical decisions and cross-disciplinary integration across thermal/fluid, mechanical, electrical, controls, structural, manufacturing, reliability, cost, compliance, and technical risk. It leads technical design reviews and NPI readiness, supports engineering decisions with analysis, risk assessment, testing, and validation evidence, and defines product verification, validation, and compliance strategies. The engineer provides technical leadership from prototyping and engineering builds through design verification, product validation, and production launch, including hands-on troubleshooting and engineering support. The role partners with Manufacturing, Quality, Supply, suppliers, Product Management, and Project Management, and mentors multidisciplinary engineering teams without direct reporting authority.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering field.
- At least 8 years of hands-on engineering experience, including technical leadership of thermal-management, liquid-cooling, fluid-distribution, or comparable electromechanical products from requirements through production launch.
- Solid understanding of fluid mechanics, hydraulics, heat transfer, pumps, valves, heat exchangers, piping, fittings, sensors, and related system components.
- Experience developing system architectures and integrating mechanical and fluid systems with electrical and controls architectures.
- Experience applying engineering design, risk, and validation methodologies such as DFMEA, DFM/DFMA, DRBFM, technical readiness assessments, structured design reviews, and verification and validation.
- Track record of leading multidisciplinary teams, making technically sound trade-offs, and addressing complex system-level problems using engineering fundamentals, analysis, test data, and structured problem-solving.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, including the ability to translate complex technical topics into clear decisions, risks, recommendations, and actions while mentoring engineers.
- Experience partnering with manufacturing teams and suppliers through prototype, validation, qualification, and production-launch activities.
- Ability to travel up to 10% domestically.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree.
Responsibilities
- Serve as technical leader and engineering owner for liquid-cooling product development programs, including CDUs, manifolds, and fluid-distribution solutions.
- Own system architecture and technical requirements, and translate customer and product needs into specifications, interfaces, design criteria, and verification plans.
- Drive system-level technical decisions and cross-disciplinary integration across relevant engineering and business functions.
- Lead technical design reviews and NPI readiness, supporting decisions with analysis, risk assessment, testing, and validation evidence.
- Define and implement product verification, validation, and compliance strategies, including testing, certification activities, and evaluation against requirements.
- Provide technical leadership from prototyping and engineering builds through verification, validation, and production launch, including troubleshooting and engineering support.
- Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, Supply, suppliers, Product Management, and Project Management on component selection, manufacturability, qualification, risk mitigation, and production readiness.
- Mentor and influence multidisciplinary engineering teams without direct reporting authority.
- Promote technical ownership, standardized solutions, lessons learned, and reuse across the Data Solutions product portfolio.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Short-term and long-term disability benefits.
- Critical illness and accident insurance.
- Life insurance.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
- Employee stock purchase plan with company match.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Caregiver, personal, and parental leave.
- Back-up care services.
- Paid time off, including volunteer time.
- Well-being program.
- Legal and identity theft protection.
- Potential eligibility for annual incentives, depending on the position offered.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
