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We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community. We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us.\nJob Summary:\nThe successful candidate will perform as a senior thermal engineer role in SMC LAB department team. Responsible for system cooling design, validations, thermal issues analysis for server / storage / GPU and workstation. As your experienced thermal technical background to lead the system cooling solutions and process improvement with cross function team. Highly motivated engineers and the applicant must process excellent communication and professional skills to identify thermal management solutions. Welcome the talent engineer to join the innovation team\nEssential Duties and Responsibilities:\nIncludes the following essential duties and responsibilities (other duties may also be assigned):\nResponsible for system thermal design in mainstream server / storage / blade / AI GPU systems and support PM for full product life cycle.\nCross function teamwork with project team to provide cooling solutions and issues debugging as well as deal with customer’s response immediately.\nCollaborate with motherboard, chassis, power supply, and system teams to optimize system layout and component placement\nThermal measurement experience with thermal test vehicles, flow chamber test, design testing and data acquisition with regards to industry standards\nFamiliar with advanced cooling solution in liquid cooling / loop heat pipe / thermo-syphon /immersion cooling technologies and future thermal solution research.\nUnderstanding 6 sigma, GR&R, FAI and stack up of thermal solution for basic product quality control process and leads production parts approval process for qualification of key components.\nProvide thermal/cooling technical support and deployment from server level to data center level if needed.\nResearch, investigate, introduce and engage new techniques to advance cooling schemes and thermal management.\nQualifications:\nBS or MS in ME/Thermal/Aerospace/EE or equivalent training with minimum 8+ years experiences in server/storage/blade/Industry system thermal design and solution validation preferred.\nRequire server knowledge and experience in system design process and thermal design/management, heat transfer material, cooling devices.\nStrong organizational, problem solving, efficient communication skills in both verbal and written.\nRequire reviewing system thermal design, analysis, debugging, validation, SOP documentation and also communication.\nKnowledge of mechanical/thermals (cooling devices, air flow, temp, power, cooling, mechanical design). 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