Thermal Design Engineer, Platforms III, Google Cloud
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 1 year of experience in designing mechanical components like plastic or metal parts, mechanical assemblies, printed circuit boards, or flexes.
- 1 year of experience with Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools such as 3D MCAD, NX, Creo, or Solidworks.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Mechanical or Thermal Engineering.
- 8 years of experience in thermal design, analysis and validation of server systems and products, experience in working with OEM, ODM, and cooling system & component suppliers, experience in working with cooling strategies used for package, boards, systems and data centers.
- Experience in one or more advanced cooling techniques such as liquid cooling, thermal interface materials, thermo-electric devices, two-phase heat transfer and/or heat exchangers.
- Experience in capturing temperature, pressure, velocity, power, flow rates, acceleration, displacement, sound, FloTHERM, IcePak, and CAD experience.
- Good communication and presentation skill in English.
About the job
Our computational challenges are so big and unique we can't just buy our hardware, we've got to make it ourselves. Our Platforms Team designs and builds the hardware, software and networking technologies that power all of Google's services. As a Mechanical Engineer you design and evaluate our data center systems, identifying product requirements and contributing to research and project planning. From the chip to chiller, you are responsible for designing and optimizing an architecture that will scale with Google's continued growth.
With your technical expertise, you lead and manage projects, develop product and process improvements, provide consultation to others and help facilitate training and development.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to system architecture with the ability to make interdisciplinary tradeoffs to optimize Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of compute infrastructure.
- Develop holistic thermal/mechanical/system designs from package to data center level optimizing for cost and efficiency while innovating for performance.
- Design thermal management hardware including material selection, heat sinks, heat exchangers, air movers, pumps, and all supporting equipment.
- Develop specifications and test procedures as necessary to ensure desired reliability and performance of electronic equipment, collaborate, supervise, mentor, and motivate suppliers to design and develop excellent products and mentor engineers in all aspects of concept development, analysis, design, and specification.
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