Thermal Engineer
Intel
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Posted on Jun 14, 2025
Job Details:
Job Description:
As a Thermal Engineer, you will be part of a team responsible for developing Edge reference platforms utilizing Intel Client architecture, to enable customers and proof-of-concept models for emerging technologies.
Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Drives end-to-end thermal design and development from initial concept to fruition ensuring thermal objectives are met.
- 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.
- 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, 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.
- Conducts thermal simulation and analysis that extends to within the silicon, electronic packaging, and PCB, with understanding of the thermal impact of material selection, StackUp, design layout, thermal dissipation power-map, and transient behavior.
- 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.
- Drives continuous technical readiness by conducting research, experiments, prototypes, and testing relevant to thermal engineering discipline.
Qualifications:
Minimum qualifications are required to be initially considered for this position:
- BS in Mechanical Engineering or related fields.
- 5+ years of experience working in:
- Thermal engineering and design.
- Heat transfer fundamentals.
- Thermal simulation software, such as Flotherm or Icepak.
- Hands-on experience in thermal testing and analysis.
- Advanced English level.
Must have unrestricted - permanent right to work in Mexico (the position is not eligible for employment-based visa/immigration sponsorship).
Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.
Familiarity with MATLAB, LabVIEW, and statistical methodologies.
- Experience with a broad range of PCB form factors.
- Familiarity with all aspect of hardware / working in a multi-disciplinary engineering team.
- Experience in feedback control of dynamic systems is highly desired.
- Understanding of fundamental electrical engineering principles.
Job Type:
Experienced HireShift:
Shift 1 (Mexico)Primary Location:
Mexico, GuadalajaraAdditional 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
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