Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.
Thermal Design Engineer - Lead Principal
San Jose, CA · Principal · Contract
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About the role
- #WeAreIn for jobs that impact everyone's life. What if your ideas could change the way the world connects, powers up, or thinks? As a Thermal Design Engineer - Lead Principal on our Research & Development team, you'll
- have the opportunity to merge creativity with your technical expertise by
Responsibilities
- Together, we drive innovation and customer success, while caring for our people and empowering them to reach ambitious goals.
- Drive prototype builds, thermal validation, and correlation between simulation and lab data.
- 8-10+ years of thermal/mechanical design experience within the semiconductor, power electronics, or advanced electronics cooling industry.
Requirements
- Expert proficiency in SolidWorks for 3D mechanical design.
- Strong hands-on experience with FloTHERM, ANSYS Icepak, and FiniteElement Analysis (FEA) tools.
- Deep knowledge of liquid cooling systems, including cold plates,manifolds, pumps, and coolant flow optimization.
- This offer is contingent upon Infineon's ability to satisfy these export control laws as related to your employment and anticipated job activities.
Nice to have
- #WeAreIn for jobs that impact everyone's life.
- What if your ideas could change the way the world connects, powers up, or thinks?
- have the opportunity to merge creativity with your technical expertise by
- shaping the future of technology, driving groundbreaking projects, and bringing
- new ideas to life.
- Conduct steady-state and transient thermal analysis to improve performance, reliability, and manufacturability.
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across thermal engineering initiatives.
- Influence product roadmap decisions related to thermal performance, packaging, and system integration.
Skills
- Evaluate and select thermal interface materials (TIMs), cooling technologies, and advanced materials for semiconductor applications.
- Infineon Technologies is an equal opportunity employer.
- Infineon Technologies takes data privacy and identity theft very seriously.
- Our hiring decisions are based on skills and experience.
Compensation
- $223k-$307k
Company info
- Be a part of making life easier, safer and greener.
- We are on a journey to create the best Infineon for everyone.
Equal opportunity
- We welcome applicants for who they are and offer a workplace built on trust, openness, respect and equal opportunity.
- We strive to create the best Infineon for everyone by embracing diversity and inclusion.
Visa & Work Authorization
- gion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care st
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