Senior Thermal Architect

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $52k - $200k / year

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Intel Corporation

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1968

🔧 Hardware

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📡 Telecommunications

Hardware • Artificial Intelligence • Telecommunications

Intel Corporation is a leading technology company that specializes in manufacturing and selling a variety of hardware and software products. Its offerings include processors such as Intel Core, Intel Xeon, and Intel Atom, as well as discrete graphics, AI accelerators, silicon photonics, and embedded solutions. Intel serves various industries with its networking, storage solutions, and developer resources, focusing heavily on AI and performance-driven technologies. The company plays a significant role in advancing computing experiences across PCs, data centers, cloud, edge, and 5G networks. Intel is committed to delivering high performance and secure technologies while fostering innovation through its expansive partner ecosystem and development tools.

📋 Description

• Define and own the thermal architecture for complex electronic systems • Develop thermal budgets, airflow strategies, and cooling solutions • Lead CFD and FEA thermal simulations using tools such as Ansys Icepak, FloTHERM, 6SigmaET, or COMSOL • Drive trade-off analyses between thermal performance, acoustics, cost, weight, and form factor • Partner with silicon and power teams to influence chip floorplans, package selection, and power delivery for thermal optimization • Specify and qualify thermal interface materials (TIMs), heatsinks, fans, pumps, cold plates, and related components • Lead thermal characterization, bring-up, and validation in the lab; correlate models to measured data • Mentor junior thermal engineers and establish best practices, design guidelines, and review processes • Engage with suppliers and ODM/OEM partners on thermal design reviews and DFx activities • Represent thermal engineering in cross-functional architecture reviews and executive readouts.

🎯 Requirements

• BS in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field • 9+ years of hands-on thermal design experience for electronic systems • Deep expertise in heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and thermodynamics fundamentals • Proven track record shipping products with non-trivial thermal challenges • Proficiency with industry-standard CFD tools (Icepak, FloTHERM, 6SigmaET, or equivalent) • Strong experience with lab instrumentation: thermocouples, IR cameras, anemometers, wind tunnels, and power measurement • Excellent ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs to both engineers and executives.

🏖️ Benefits

• health, retirement, and vacation • competitive pay • stock bonuses