Celestica

Principal, Design Engineering (Thermal)

Celestica$120K — $160K *
Technical Services
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 15 years' experience in data center liquid cooling for high-power GPUs.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals are essential.
  • Hands-on experience with manufacturing processes and supplier management.
  • Understanding of reliability, safety, and performance challenges in liquid cooling.
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering required; Master's preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Take full ownership of thermal design from concept to manufacturing transfer.
  • Conduct thorough thermal simulations and analyses from chip to facility level.
  • Research and assess heat transfer hardware for integration into products.
  • Enhance operation of heat transfer hardware through innovative methods.
  • Consider the thermal impacts of various chip packaging technologies.
  • Utilize best practices in fluid flow technology to cool high heat flux chips.
  • Conduct lab tests to validate designs and document thermal test plans.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with a world-class team.
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge cooling technologies.
  • Involvement in product development from concept to market.
  • Exposure to multi-disciplinary collaboration with diverse teams.
Full Job Description
Req ID: 133783
Region: Americas
Country: USA
State/Province: Texas
City: Austin

Summary

Join a world class team to create high end electronics cooling solutions for systems such as AI servers, switches, and accelerators. We work hard together to design at the leading edge of cooling technology. Must have at minimum 15+ years of experience in data center liquid cooling for high-power graphics processing units (GPUs). Strong engineering fundamentals are essential. As a member of the Hardware Product Development team, you have the ability to work in partnership with hardware, software, and thermal architects within and outside Celestica to define the best in class products.

Detailed Description

  • Complete ownership of thermal design for various electronic products from thermal modeling, design, test, and design revision, until transfer to manufacturing.
  • Conduct thermal simulations, postprocessing, and analysis ranging from chip to facilities level to verify thermal feasibility, risk, and to inform your designs.
  • Maintain awareness of heat transfer hardware available from all sources, including how it operates and performs, its cost, and how it can be incorporated into our products.
  • Conceive and implement ways to enhance and extend operation of heat transfer hardware.
  • Consider the thermal aspects of chip packaging technologies.
  • Apply best-in-class fluid flow geometry and technology to cool high heat flux chips.
  • Determine and consider the effects of contact resistance and the use of Thermal Interface Materials.
  • Apply air cooling when possible and liquid cooling when necessary to achieve full performance and reliability at the lowest cost.
  • Size liquid cold plates, heat sinks, heat pipes, air movers, air filters, air ducting, and perforated plates.
  • Plan your work to achieve full required performance, and stay on schedule to support overall product development.
  • Reference real world limitations to inform your work, such as manufacturing methods and cost, reliability, variability of incoming parts, and tolerances on all specifications.
  • Perform hands-on lab tests of equipment from component to rack and facility level for design and model validation. Document thermal test plans, devise and build test stands, including technical support, cooling liquid supply, power delivery, metrology and instrumentation, compute workload, experiment control, and data recording.
  • Analyze test data to draw inferences about the equipment tested. Apply statistical methods as required to maximize utilization of data and test usefulness.
  • Work with multi-disciplinary groups to define system requirements and design products.
  • Work with cross-functional teams to identify root causes of system performance.


Skills

  • 15+ years of experience in thermal systems engineering, preferably with direct experience in liquid cooling for high-performance computing or data
  • Hands-on experience with manufacturing processes, supplier management, and technology transfer
  • Strong understanding of liquid cooling-specific reliability, safety, and performance challenges


Typical Education

  • Preferred: Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering
  • Required: Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering


Physical Demands

  • Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
  • Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
  • Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
  • Occasional travel may be required.


Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.
Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.

About Celestica

Celestica is a Canadian multinational electronics manufacturing services company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The company provides a range of services to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the aerospace and defense, communications, enterprise computing, healthcare, industrial, semiconductor, and smart energy industries. Celestica's services include design and engineering, supply chain management, assembly and testing, and after-market services. The company operates in North America, Europe, and Asia and has manufacturing facilities in over 10 countries. Celestica was founded in 1994 as a subsidiary of IBM Canada and became an independent company in 1997.
Learn more about Celestica
Size
23,915 employees
Market Cap
$1.3 billion
Industry
Founded
1994
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