Senior Thermal Engineer

Job Description

Arista seeks to add a Senior Thermal Engineer to address thermal engineering design challenges of high-end switching products in Santa Clara, California. This position reports to the Mechanical Engineering Manager

What You’ll Do

In this role, you will work closely with the Electrical design and hardware validation teams to ensure fulfillment of overall system requirements. As the Senior Thermal Engineer you will be responsible for addressing all thermal design related issues on different projects and shape thermal strategy for future products

Develop thermal cooling strategies for next-generation, high-performance switching products

Work independently to perform complete thermal analysis and design using Icepak

Support thermal analysis requests from hardware team, product management team and other cross functional teams with either spreadsheet calculations or detailed simulation results

Capable of conducting different engineering experimental tests to verify design (e.g., components, system level, etc.) and correlate with computational results

Qualifications

MS Degree in Mechanical Engineering - Ph.D. preferred

Minimum of 5 years of direct professional experience in thermal design and analysis of electronic appliances using Icepak, FloTHERM, SmartCFD, etc

Experience with high power (>800W) SoC liquid cooling thermal models and system-level analysis

Experience in cold plate liquid cooling design and analysis, open loop or closed loop liquid cooling, CDU at rack level or facility level design and analysis

Experience in numerical modeling based on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) (convergence, discretization, meshing)

Knowledge and familiarity with electronic cooling and challenges of systems within data center environments

Knowledge of heat transfer modes; conduction, convection (passive and active), and radiation

Thorough understanding of heat sink type/design, heat pipes, vapor chambers, fans, blowers, pumps, thermal interface material. Experience in vendor selection

Flow and thermal measurement techniques, mechanical (thermal and structural) validation and qualification tests including, Environmental Test (ETE), etc

Knowledge of thermal airflow testing, fans, pumps, liquid loop cold plate testing, and augmentation to system thermal simulation models

Experience using ProEngineer (PTC Creo) a plus