Who is Flock?

Flock Safety is an all-in-one technology solution to eliminate crime and keep communities safe. Our intelligent platform combines the power of communities at scale - including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies - to shape a safer future together. Our full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by communities across the country to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone.

Our holistic public safety platform is comprehensive and intelligent, providing the actionable evidence needed to solve, deter and reduce crime across neighborhoods, schools, businesses and entire cities. Without compromising transparency or privacy, we are turning unbiased data into objective answers.

Flock strives to offer a career-defining experience where you can also make an impact on your community. While safety is a serious business, we are a supportive team that is optimizing the remote experience to create strong and fulfilling relationships even when we are physically apart. Our group of hard-working employees thrive in a positive and inclusive environment, where a bias towards action is rewarded. 

We have raised over $700M in venture capital from investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Bedrock Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital. Now surpassing a $7.5B valuation, Flock is scaling intentionally and seeking the best and brightest to help us meet our goal of reducing crime in the United States by 25% in the next three years.

The Opportunity 

This position presents an opportunity for a Thermal Subject Matter Expert to assume a role with significant impact. We are developing advanced drone technology and are seeking a Senior Staff Thermal Engineer to play a key role in defining our product architecture. The incumbent will have a key role in influencing decisions across Mechanical, Electrical, and Performance domains. Their expertise will be vital to our initiatives aimed at advancing the drone market and providing tangible benefits to communities.

The Skillset 

• Bachelor of Science  in Mechanical Engineering 

• 10+ years of experience in consumer electronics, Industrial IoT, or related industries, specializing in Mechanical/ID and thermal design optimization.

• 5+ years designing advanced thermal systems for integrated hardware products.

• Deep expertise in thermal management design elements including TIM, spreaders, heat sinks, vapor chambers, heat pipes, and fans.

• Proven experience designing both passive and active thermal management systems.

• Skilled in thermal testing, including sensor selection, data acquisition, and post-processing.

• Expert in creating FEA-CFD models and conducting full thermal system simulations and analyses.

• Proficient with thermal simulation tools such as ANSYS-Icepak, Flotherm, and similar.

• Familiar with designing for industry-leading, ARM-based processor systems (e.g., Qualcomm, Ambarella, Nvidia).

• Adept at designing and executing thermal tests in a lab environment, with hands-on experience in airflow and temperature measurement.

• Proficiency in 3D CAD tools (SolidWorks, Creo)

• Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical content effectively, both written and verbally.

Feeling uneasy that you haven’t ticked every box? That’s okay; we’ve felt that way too. Studies have shown women and minorities are less likely to apply unless they meet all qualifications. We encourage you to break the status quo and apply to roles that would make you excited to come to work every day.

90 Days at Flock

We are a results-oriented culture and believe job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe 90 day plans and believe that good days lead to good weeks, which lead to good months. This serves as a preview of the 90 day plan you will receive if you were to be hired in this role at Flock Safety.

The First 30 Days

• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams and external partners to establish and meet design requirements and decisions, particularly those related to the thermal performance of product designs.

• Develop a deep understanding of product architectures, vendor capabilities, operational contexts, and performance objectives.

• Evaluate and optimize designs for thermal performance throughout the product lifecycle.

• Establish and maintain the necessary tools and software for comprehensive thermal analysis and simulations.

• Execute thermal validation and characterization tests, presenting findings to stakeholders and proposing hardware/software mitigatio