Uber

Senior Thermal Engineer

Uber • $180K — $200K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline
  • 5+ years of thermal engineering experience in automotive or high-power electronics
  • Strong hands-on experience with liquid cooling systems
  • Knowledge of heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and electronics thermal management
  • Experience with environmental testing and thermal testing methods
  • Proficient in CAD software like Solidworks or NX
  • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex thermal issues

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end thermal design and validation for vehicle hardware
  • Design thermal solutions using various cooling techniques
  • Develop and integrate liquid cooling systems into vehicles
  • Conduct prototype testing in thermal chambers and vehicles
  • Perform thermal calculations and evaluate cooling system performance
  • Use thermal/CFD simulations to correlate data and models
  • Troubleshoot and resolve thermal issues directly on vehicles

Benefits

  • Eligible for Uber's bonus program
  • Potential for equity award and other compensation types
  • Participation in 401(k) plan
  • Access to various employee benefits
Full Job Description
Job Description

About the Role

As a Senior Thermal Engineer at Uber AV Labs, you will own thermal design, validation, and troubleshooting for autonomous vehicle hardware. This is a highly hands-on role working directly with sensors, compute systems, vehicle hardware, and environmental systems from prototype through production.
CoreResponsibilities
  • Own end to end thermal design and validation for vehicle hardware, including compute units, power electronics and sensor systems
  • Design practical thermal solutions using liquid cooling, conduction, convection, heat sinks, fans/blowers, heaters, insulation, and thermal interface materials.
  • Design and develop liquid cooling systems, including coolant loops, cold plates, pumps, heat exchangers/radiators, reservoirs, valves, hoses, and vehicle integration.
  • Build and instrument prototypes; perform bench, thermal chamber, and vehicle testing across hot/cold environmental conditions.
  • Perform thermal and fluid calculations to size cooling components and evaluate system performance.
  • Use thermal/CFD simulation where appropriate and correlate models against physical test data.
  • Troubleshoot thermal and cooling-system issues directly on vehicles and hardware, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions.
  • Work closely with mechanical, electrical, sensor, compute, vehicle integration, and operation teams.
  • Drive designs from early prototype through validation builds and release in production.
Basic Qualifications
  • BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
  • 5+ years of thermal engineering experience, preferably in automotive, autonomous vehicles, robotics, aerospace, or high-power electronics.
  • Strong hands-on experience designing, building, and validating cooling systems. Demonstrated experience with liquid cooling.
  • Strong hands-on experience building, instrumenting, and testing thermal systems.
  • Strong understanding of heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and electronics thermal management.
  • Experience with environmental chambers and vehicle-level hot/cold testing.
  • Experience with CAD (Solidworks, NX, Catia or equivalent) and mechanical design
  • Comfortable working directly with prototype hardware, test equipment, and vehicles.
  • Demonstrated ability to take an ambiguous thermal problem from measurement 12 root cause 12 design 12 validation.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with thermal/CFD tools
  • Automotive coolant-loop or vehicle thermal-management experience.
  • Familiarity with automotive validation, reliability testing, and production design processes.


Responsibilities

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $180,000 per year - USD $200,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.

About Uber

Uber Entertainment, Inc. is a privately held video game development company headquartered in beautiful downtown Kirkland, WA. Uber is currently developing Planetary Annihilation, a next generation real time strategy game of epic proportions.

Uber Careers

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