Staff Engineer, Hardware Design - Thermal

Req ID: 119336 
Region: Americas 
Country: United States 
State/Province: California 
City:  San Jose 

Summary

About Celestica:

If you’re reading this, chances are that you’re getting this information over at least one piece of hardware that we designed, developed, manufactured or service. Celestica is the brand behind the brands you love in tech and we design, develop, and manufacture leading-edge Hardware Platform Solutions in Networking, Storage, and Server solutions from general purpose to customized Cloud, AI, machine learning, Edge and 5G deployments. Across Data Centers and Enterprise deployments, we are partnered with an impressive roster of some of the world’s biggest tech companies. We work with 9 of the top 10 global internet service providers, 4 of the top 5 global storage providers, 3 of the top 5 networking OEMs, and the top 3 non-X86 server providers engineering solutions for this generation and the next.

Our customers experience firsthand the power of our people - people who share a passion for innovation, technology, collaboration, performance and quality. People who, together, make a formidable team that is not only transforming our company, but transforming the technology landscape of the future. Celestica might not be a household name, but as you evaluate the companies, industries, cultures and teams that you are considering for your next career move, we hope that one thing will become very clear: Celestica is no ordinary company. We are change makers. Innovators. And we have an unrelenting drive to find the way for our customers.

Let’s engineer the future together.

 

Job Summary: 

As a member of the Hardware Product Development team, you will be responsible for the thermal design and development for various products. You have the ability to work in partnership with hardware, software, CTO and other architects within and outside Celestica to define the best in class products.

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Thermal design development for various electronic products, server/storage products, thermal design experience is preferred.
• Provide high quality thermal solution/response to support RFQs 
• Design robust thermal solutions to meet product specifications, and cooperate with Software team to implement fan speed control strategy.
• Conduct thermal simulation analysis from Board to system level to verify thermal feasibility/risk.
• Experience in sizing various thermal components, such as TIM, heat sinks, air movers, air filters, and air ducting/perf plates.
• Hands-on work with empirical work in thermal design verifications from components to system level.
• Document thermal test plan and perform thermal, air flow/impedance, acoustic measurements.
• Interface with a multi-disciplinary group to define system requirements, and design products. Experience in working in medium sized multidisciplinary development teams.
• Interface with heat sink and air mover vendors to keep up to manage cost, quality and functionality.
• Work with function team to identify route cause of system failure.
• Keep tracking on leading-edge cooling technology.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• 7+ years’ experience or Master’s degree in thermal design/simulation/test validation for electronic product, storage/server/switch product experience is preferred.
• Strong user of Flotherm as CFD analysis tool. Transient analysis experience is a plus.
• Familiar in various heat sinks, heat pipe, Vapor chamber design/selection, liquid cooling or other advanced cooling technology is a plus.
• Familiar and experience in various fan speed control methodology and over temperature protection mechanism.
• Familiar with thermal measurement technology and test tools such as temperature data logger, IR camera, wind tunnel, air speed meter etc.
• Knowledge about Mechanical design tool such as Pro/E considered as a plus.
• Knowledge of server/storage/switch system architecture is a plus.
• Familiar with industry standard including SBB, NEBS, GR-63, ASHRAE TC9.9, etc.

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.

Typical Experience

• 7 to 10 years of related experience

Typical Education

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering.  Preference giving to candidates with a Master’s degree in Thermody