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Reporting to the Thermal Mechanical Engineering Team Lead, you will play a key role in delivering innovative cooling technologies while strengthening customer partnerships.\nWhat's in it For You:\nGenerous paid time off, flex days, and paid company-wide shutdown during the holiday season.\n\nComprehensive benefits plan, with the majority of premiums funded by CoolIT.\n\nCompany-funded 401(k) contributions to help support your long-term financial goals.\n\nAnnual professional development allowance to support ongoing learning, skill development, and career growth.\n\nWhat You Will Do:\nDesign and develop thermal-mechanical products and components, including passive cold plates, coolant distribution manifolds, and modular cooling system assemblies, with a focus on performance, reliability, cost, and manufacturability.\n\nLead product development activities from concept through production, including design studies, prototype development, design verification, risk assessment, and release to manufacturing.\n\nCreate and maintain detailed CAD models, engineering drawings, bills of materials, and related documentation in accordance with company standards, GD&T practices, and DFM requirements.\n\nConduct thermal, fluid flow, structural analyses, and perform laboratory testing, data analysis, and root cause investigations to validate designs and optimize product performance.\n\nCollaborate closely with customers and cross-functional teams, including testing, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and product management, to understand requirements, resolve technical challenges, and ensure successful product integration throughout the design cycle.\n\nServe as a technical representative at customer sites, providing hands-on engineering support, participating in design reviews, gathering product and application feedback, and helping drive efficient issue resolution from development through early production.\n\nPosition Details:\nTravel: Required travel to customer sites within the Bay area .\n\nOccasional travel to headquarter in Calgary AB Canada for training\n\nMinimal International travel may be required based on business needs.\n\nCandidate must reside in: Commutable distance of the Bay Area, CA\n\nWork location: Remote when not at customers sites\n\nWork week and shift: Full-time, standard business hours\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.\n\nProven experience designing mechanical components and assemblies for mass production using multiple manufacturing processes.\n\nStrong understanding of core mechanical engineering principles, including:\n\nGeometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T)\n\nTolerance stack-up and statistical tolerance analysis\n\nMechanism design and analysis\n\nFinite Element Analysis (FEA)\n\nDesign for Manufacturing (DFM)\n\nDesign Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA)\n\nProduct Lifecycle Management (PLM)\n\nEngineering testing, validation, and root cause analysis\n\nProficient in CAD and simulation tools (e.g., SolidWorks) to create production-ready models and drawings, perform analyses, and optimize design performance.\n\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with proven experience working directly with customers to gather requirements, communicating technical concepts, and resolving engineering challenges.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nMinimum 5 years of experience in thermal-mechanical product development.\n\nStrong understanding of fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and cooling system design.\n\nExperience designing products for high-volume manufacturing environments.\n\nMaster’s degree in mechanical engineering, Thermal Mechanical Engineering specializing in Fluid Dynamics, or a related field.\n\nAnnual or Hourly Compensation Range:\nThe pay range for this position is $150,000-200,000 Many factors are taken into consideration when determining compensation, such as experience, education, training, geography, etc. We comply with all minimum wage and overtime laws.Benefits\nEcolab provides the following benefits: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, auto insurance, home insurance, pet insurance, identity theft protection, short-term and long-term disability, 401k, pension plans, retirement health care benefits, short-term incentives, vacation (12 days), holidays, parental leave, employee stock purchase plans (Full-Time Associates), discount on day care services and caregiver services, adoption assistance, group legal services, employee assistance program, employee discount program, and education assistance program, on-Site childcare and fitness facilities may be available at select Ecolab locations. 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