Thermal Engineer
About The Position
At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career. THE ROLE: As a Thermal Engineer in Network Technology Solutions Group (NTSG) Thermal Mechanical Engineering department, you will be responsible for the thermal design, validation and technology development for the AMD Data Center 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, boarding engineering, validation, and manufacturing and leaders within AMD, our customers, and our partners. THE PERSON: The Thermal Engineer on the Thermal Mechanical Engineering team will have excellent communication skills, planning skills, technical expertise, is a team player, possesses critical problem solving and troubleshooting skills, is a self-starter, and is well organized. They will be market savvy and comfortable in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: The Thermal Engineer on the Thermal Mechanical Engineering team will be responsible for the end-to-end development and delivery of thermal and/or mechanical solutions for 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.
Requirements
- Strong background in heat transfer and fluid dynamics with emphasis on electronics thermal management. Thorough understanding of electronics cooling technologies; Air cooling and liquid cooling.
- CFD - Experience with CFD for liquid cooled systems with Icepak or similar tools is required.
- CAD - Experience with SolidWorks and/or Creo is required.
- Deep understanding of thermal management design elements including TIM, spreaders, heat sink, vapor chamber, heat pipe, and fan
- Rack level and Data Center and server level design experience.
- Experience developing liquid cooling solutions including design of cold plates, liquid interconnects, implementing quick disconnects, hoses, and manifolds.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills at the engineering and executive levels, including a proven track record of working across organization boundaries to define requirements, solve complex problems and drive programs to successful completion
Nice To Haves
- CFD experience in ANSYS Icepak or AEDT is a plus.
- Ability to implement liquid cooling designs in Creo or SolidWorks for CFD analysis is a plus.
- Lab Skills: Experience with design of experiments, instrumentation, data acquisition, and data analysis, including uncertainty analysis, is a plus.
- Programming Skills: Ability to write scripts in programming languages (e.g., Python, C/C++, MATLAB) for data analysis and tool development is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Design thermal solutions to enable AMD's next generation of Data Center Systems
- Collaborate with silicon design engineering, board engineering, power engineering and other cross-functional teams to design thermal-mechanical solutions from chip level to system level
- Contribute to the overall product cycle from conceptualization through mass production
- Work in a dynamic and fast-paced product development environment
- Thermal validation of thermal-mechanical hardware at chip, card and system level
- Identify and investigate novel thermal technologies and work with vendors and internal teams to evaluate the technologies for alignment to the AMD product roadmap
- Drive process improvements while executing fast time-to-market on products.
Benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
