Senior Thermal Engineer

Intel

Intel

Software Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Apr 21, 2025

Job Details:

Job Description:

  • Drives end-to-end thermal design and development from initial concept to fruition ensuring thermal objectives are met. Converting product landing zone requirements into thermal mechanical specifications.
  • Designs thermal solutions to address platform energy efficiency and performance scaling.
  • Defines product power and temperature limits based on system cooling capability and provides thermal parameters for product teams to use for HVM manufacturing.
  • Conducts thermal analysis, designs, prototypes, and testing for air and liquid cooling solutions at various stages of product life cycle.
  • Applies deep expertise in conduction, convection (passive and active), radiation, heat sinks, heat pipes, fans and vapor chambers to perform thermal and pressure drop characterization of cooling solution as a function of flow rates and validates model correlation.
  • Drives thermal management system, tunes thermal solutions considering thermal interface materials and contact pressure as well as firmware-based thermal management policies to achieve maximum performance.
  • Delivers thermal design reviews and solutions to resolve problems.
  • Collaborates cross-functionally with design, power, reliability, electrical, and mechanical teams to understand the platform requirements and constraints to strategize project direction.
  • Drives continuous technical readiness by conducting research, experiments, prototypes, and testing relevant to thermal engineering discipline through consistent innovation and creativity in approach.
  • Develops and mentors’ other technical peers, grows the community, acts as a change agent, and role models Intel values.
  • Aligns organizational goals with technical vision, formulates technical strategy to deliver leadership solutions, and demonstrates a track record of relentless execution in bringing products and technologies to market.
  • Develop a strategy for the group to solve wide range of problems in an innovative way.
  • Decisions consistently and directly impact the performance and direction of the organization.
  • Serve as internal consultant to senior management and external spokesperson for the organization on critical projects and/or matters of company policy and practices.
  • Leads critical projects involving customers, helps management set team direction.

Qualifications:

  • Masters or Phd in Thermal/ Mechanical Engineering from reputed university.
  • 12+ years of Experience in Thermal and Fluid design.
  • Expert in CFD, thermal and flow measurement.

Job Type:

Experienced Hire

Shift:

Shift 1 (India)

Primary Location:

India, Bangalore

Additional Locations:

Business group:

The Client Computing Group (CCG) is responsible for driving business strategy and product development for Intel's PC products and platforms, spanning form factors such as notebooks, desktops, 2 in 1s, all in ones. Working with our partners across the industry, we intend to deliver purposeful computing experiences that unlock people's potential - allowing each person use our products to focus, create and connect in ways that matter most to them. As the largest business unit at Intel, CCG is investing more heavily in the PC, ramping its capabilities even more aggressively, and designing the PC experience even more deliberately, including delivering a predictable cadence of leadership products. As a result, we are able to fuel innovation across Intel, providing an important source of IP and scale, as well as help the company deliver on its purpose of enriching the lives of every person on earth.

Posting Statement:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Position of Trust

N/A

Work Model for this Role

This role will require an on-site presence. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.