Workstation Mechanical Thermal Architect

HP • Fort Collins, CO

6d • Onsite

About The Position

HP Advanced Compute Solutions is seeking an experienced engineering architect to innovate, define and design our Desktop Workstation platforms aligned to current and future customer workflow requirements. This person will be part of the Future Architecture and Technologies Team providing technical expertise and leadership to anticipate, imagine, and innovate future platforms, components, and solutions. This role is based in Fort Collins, Colorado but will communicate and align closely with HP global planning teams. We help customers drive the most complex workflows by: Deeply understanding mechanical and thermal technologies and methodologies to provide solutions and choice points to optimize Workstation customer experience especially relating to form-factor, performance, reliability, and acoustics. Projecting, defining, and designing mechanical and thermal solutions aligned to current and future customer requirements for our Workstation portfolio. Leading future mechanical/thermal innovation streams and POC activities to build industry-leading capabilities. Proposing mechanical and thermal solutions platform concepts, definitions, and plans in partnership with portfolio architects and planning technologists to bring together a holistic solution. Influencing and enabling cutting-edge technology, design, and experiences into future solutions. Deeply understanding workstation customer workflows and strategic technology trends and using these insights to propose competitively advantaged mechanical and thermal solutions with the highest performance, richest features, and leadership market value. Actively seeking HP unique innovation and differentiation and fully aligning to our customer’s solution requirements anticipating and driving future technologies into solution choice points. Creating and contributing to technology planning roadmaps, detailed performance data and projections, and solution components to plan and optimize our portfolio advantages in the market. Collaborating and influencing within engineering and cross-functionally throughout the business to interpret and translate customer insights, champion and defend customer portfolio and solution objectives, and maintain course during product development. Driving solution, platform portfolio, and module-level strategies to enable greater differentiation and leverage and optimize to lower cost, complexity, and investment.

Requirements

• 10+ years total experience in Engineering with focus on mechanical or thermal engineering design (system thermal airflow design, thermal simulation, sheet metal and plastic design, CAD).
• Experience with product strategy, product planning, and compute workflows is highly advantageous.
• Experience/familiarity/awareness with emerging thermal technologies.
• Ability to create innovative solutions implementing emerging thermal technologies and manage prototype or solution concepts.
• A bachelor's or master’s degree in mechanical engineering or thermal engineering and significant experience with electro-mechanical product design and compute architecture.
• A successful candidate will operate both collaboratively and independently, challenging traditional approaches and constraints, defending and aligning customer benefits and impacts, and validating a strong business impact and ROI.
• Candidates must have flexibility and commitment to work in both US and occasionally global time zones to actively coordinate business investigations, planning, and communications in support and defense of portfolio and solution requirements.
• Strategic thinking, communication and presentation are key requirements for this role.
• Candidates will approach planning from a customer perspective driving solution requirement rather than component requirements and apply business acumen to guide decisions and align stakeholders.
• Advanced project management skills including schedule and risk management, resource prioritization, and structuring and guiding projects that are not fully defined to execution handoff.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to gather insights and apply both engineering and business judgement to accelerate decisions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including negotiation, presentation, and influence skills

Responsibilities

• Project, define, and design mechanical and thermal solutions aligned to current and future customer requirements for our Workstation portfolio.
• Lead future mechanical/thermal innovation streams and POC activities to build industry leading capabilities.
• Propose mechanical and thermal solutions platform concepts, definitions, and plans in partnership with portfolio architects and planning technologists to bring together a holistic solution.
• Influence and enable cutting edge technology, design, and experiences into future solutions.
• Deeply understand workstation customer workflows and strategic technology trends and use these insights to propose competitively advantaged mechanical and thermal solutions with the highest performance, richest features, and leadership market value.
• Actively seek HP unique innovation and differentiation and fully align to our customer’s solution requirements anticipating and driving future technologies into solution choice points.
• Create and contribute to technology planning roadmaps, detailed performance data and projections, and solution components to plan and optimize our portfolio advantages in the market.
• Collaborate and influence within engineering and cross-functionally throughout the business to interpret and translate customer insights, champion and defend customer portfolio and solution objectives, and maintain course during product development.
• Drive solution, platform portfolio, and module-level strategies to enable greater differentiation and leverage and optimize to lower cost, complexity, and investment.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including; 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior