Rhoda AI
Staff Thermal Systems Integration Engineer
Mountain View · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 14 days ago
PythonMATLABAlgorithmsData AnalysisANSYSCFDThermal AnalysisEmbedded SystemsRoboticsMechanical DesignHardware DesignControlsCOMSOLSimulinkResearchCommunicationCollaborationActuators
About the role
- This is a highly cross-functional role requiring deep collaboration with Hardware, Software, Controls, Systems Integration, Safety, and Product teams.
Responsibilities
- Develop system-level thermal requirements and decompose to subsystems and components
- own thermal management of the entire robot platform including all cooling devices, thermal paths, and heat dissipation strategies.
- Partner with Hardware sub-teams (structures, actuators, electrical) from design review and release, ensuring thermal requirements are met in implementation and cooling device placement and sizing are optimized.
- Create detailed thermal simulations (including computational fluid dynamics where appropriate) to validate designs
- lead thermal verification across diverse operating environments and use cases against reliability and uptime targets.
- Collaborate with Control Engineers to develop thermal management algorithms, derating, and shutdown strategies
- Validate subsystem and robot-level thermal performance, documenting thermal specifications, analyses, simulation results, and verification test plans for regulatory and design review traceability.
- Provide technical guidance on thermal design principles, best practices, and lessons learned to support the organization in thermally sound decision-making.
- At least 10 years of related experience of thermal systems analysis, including heat transfer principles, thermal modeling, and cooling device design and selection.
- Strong systems-thinking: ability to reason across mechanical, electrical, and control layers to identify thermal constraints and optimize integrated thermal solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, or closely related engineering discipline.
- Hands-on experience with thermal simulation tools for simulating heat loading and validating the impact of cooling devices and thermal management strategies.
- Experience decomposing system-level thermal requirements into component and subsystem specifications.
Nice to have
- Experience with mainstream CFD tools (ANSYS Fluent, COMSOL, OpenFOAM, or similar) and advanced thermal simulation techniques.
- Proficiency in MATLAB / Simulink for thermal modeling, control algorithm development, or co-simulation environments.
- Experience with Python for thermal data analysis, automation, or custom tooling.
- Exposure to functional safety standards (ISO 26262, IEC 61508) and regulated product development.
- Experience with requirements management and traceability tooling (Flow, DOORS, Jama, Polarion, or similar).
- Background in robotics, embedded systems, or high-performance hardware platforms.
- Prior experience supporting products in the field and turning field-observed thermal issues into durable engineering improvements.
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