Hark
Product Design Engineer, Thermals
San Jose
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 100 days ago
Agentic AIANSYSThermal AnalysisCollaboration
About the role
- Balance performance, battery life, cost, and user comfort.
- Work hands-on across simulation, prototyping, and test to enable informed architecture analysis, proactively highlighting tradeoffs and opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the thermal architecture from early architecture & NPI through production, including foundational system architecture simulation & analysis, material selection, thermal solution design, and cost optimization.
- Translate product use cases and real-world usage profiles into thermal loading scenarios that drive early design iteration
- Design and build custom thermal test infrastructure and measurement methodologies tailored to each product program
- Partner cross-functionally to ensure thermal constraints are integrated into system-level decisions around power budgets, enclosure design, and silicon selection
- Proven ability to build custom thermal test setups and drive data-backed architecture decisions during early NPI phases
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills - translating thermal trade-offs into language that all engineering and design teams can act on
- Hark is an artificial intelligence company building advanced, personalized intelligence.
- We're pairing that intelligence with next-generation hardware to create a universal interface between humans and machines.
Requirements
- 8+ years in thermal engineering with multiple shipped battery-powered consumer electronics
- Expert-level experience with thermal simulation tools (Icepak, Fluent, Ansys, or similar) and real world correlation
- Deep experience with thermal module technologies - heat pipes, vapor chambers, TIMs, graphite spreaders - and vendor evaluation at scale
- Experience in system-level power/thermal co-optimization with software or firmware teams
Nice to have
- Familiarity with regulatory and safety thermal compliance (UL, IEC) for consumer products
- The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
- This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.
Compensation
- The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
- The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role.
- This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.
Benefits
- One that is proactive, multimodal, and capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory.
- Bonus Qualifications
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