Thermal Engineer, Hardware Design

About Celestica

Celestica is the brand behind the brands you love in tech. 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.

Location

• Req
• Region:
  Americas
• Country: USA
• State/Province:
  Texas
• City:
  Richardson

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. Candidates must have relevant coursework in heat transfer and fluid mechanics, and good familiarity with 3D software applications. As a member of the Hardware Product Development team, you work in partnership with hardware, software, and thermal architects both within and outside Celestica to define the best‑in‑class products.

• 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, documenting thermal test plans, devising and building test stands, providing 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 multidisciplinary groups to define system requirements and design products.
• Work with cross‑functional teams to identify root causes of system performance.

Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. Preference given to candidates whose Master’s concentration is in heat transfer and fluid mechanics.

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.

Salary Range: $112K - $175K Annually (estimate; may change based on duties, credentials, experience, or geographic jurisdiction).

Celestica is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as…