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Staff Thermal Design & Simulation Engineer

Rivian Automotive • Irvine, California, United States • 3m ago

Responsibilities & Impact

Conceptualize design and perform numerical simulations to address a variety of thermal design challenges for leading-edge vehicle electrical hardware.
Develop electronic cooling and packaging solutions for next generation vehicle architectures and electronic systems.
Define and support best practices for how CFD can be used towards electronic thermal management for high-power requirements.
Develop strategies for optimizing thermal and mechanical components by minimizing mass, cost and material usage.
Provide detailed and actionable design suggestions including thermal stack-up, cooling layout and material selection to engineers responsible for detailed design of vehicle electronics.
Coordinate and work with other analysts across other departments to coordinate analysis methodologies and design constraints.
Own and drive thermal methodologies, deliverables and test specifications to support modeling efforts.
Work in multidisciplinary teams and drive product and engineering excellence.

Required Qualifications

Bachelors Degree in Mechanical/Thermal Engineering or equivalent; Masters or PhD preferred.
9+ years of experience in providing electronic cooling solutions, including heat sink design, fan development and evaluation of thermal interface materials.
Deep understanding of conduction, convection and radiation.
Strong expertise with computational modeling and common CFD analysis tools, such as Flotherm, Ansys, Star CCM.
Experience with flow and measurement techniques.
Experience with 3D CAD, scripting and data analysis.
Strong grasp of failure analysis methodologies and experience with product reliability and validation procedures.
Experience developing and leading other multidisciplinary engineers.
Excellent communication skills across all functions and levels.
Excellent documentation practices.
Fluent written and spoken English.

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