Etched
Thermal Manufacturing Engineer
San Jose · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 87 days ago
Thermal AnalysisMechanical DesignPower ElectronicsResearch
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About the role
- You will be the technical authority on cold plate fabrication methods including skiving, brazing, friction stir welding, diffusion bonding, and related processes.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end manufacturing engineering for thermal components and assemblies (focus on cold plates & manifolds), from NPI through mass production.
- Develop, qualify, and optimize cold plate fabrication processes including but not limited to skiving, vacuum brazing, friction stir welding, diffusion bonding, gun drilling, and extrusion-based channel formation.
- Partner with thermal and mechanical design teams early in development to drive DFx for liquid cooling system designs.
- Lead process qualification and first-article inspection at CM/supplier sites
- own PFMEA, control plans, and process validation documentation.
- Drive root cause analysis and corrective action for manufacturing defects-leaks, delamination, warpage, insufficient bonding, dimensional non-conformance.
- Collaborate with Manufacturing Test to integrate cold plate pressure testing, flow testing, and thermal performance validation into production lines.
- Support failure analysis and closed-loop feedback between factory, design, and reliability teams for thermal-related field issues.
- Build manufacturing dashboards and reporting for cold plate yield, defect pareto, and process capability trends.
- Drive continuous improvement in cold plate cost, cycle time, and quality through systematic DOEs and process optimization.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, process engineering, or thermal systems manufacturing, with direct hands-on experience producing liquid cold plates or heat exchangers.
- Demonstrated expertise in two or more of the following cold plate fabrication processes: skiving, vacuum brazing, friction stir welding, diffusion bonding, gun drilling, or extrusion-based channel formation.
- Strong understanding of aluminum and copper alloy, braze alloy selection, and metallurgical failure modes relevant to thermal hardware.
- You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)
- Hands-on experience with cold plate inspection and test methods: helium leak testing, hydrostatic pressure testing, flow/pressure-drop characterization, flatness measurement.
- Experience with DFM/DFY reviews for cold plate and liquid cooling system designs.
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.
- Prior experience in server, HPC, datacenter, or power electronics thermal management is strongly preferred.
- PFMEA, control plans, work instructions, first-article inspection reports.
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- Housing subsidy of $2,500 per month for those living within walking distance of the office
- Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
- Daily lunch and dinner in our office
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
- How we're different
- Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html.
- Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.
Company info
- We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system.
- We are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills.
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