Staff Thermal Engineer

Location

Bangalore | India

Job description

• The position is for a Mechanical Engineer in the Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG), based in Bangalore, Karnataka

• This is an exciting role in the ThinkSystem Server Development organization that has a strong focus to be the #1 trusted IT Partner in the Datacenter market
• The pace of technological change in this market is rapid, and our development engineers are constantly challenged to improve the thermal performance and efficiency of our products
• Lenovo is looking for an engineer with a strong desire to innovate thermal solutions for our server products

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree in Mechanical/Thermal Engineering.
• 7+ years of in-depth experience in thermal design for Server products OR equivalent products is strongly preferred.
• Review server system concepts and market requirements and enable a thermal solution that is compliant with the specifications of the critical components.
• Ensure that the printed circuit board layouts permit thermal solution placement and adequate airflow / waterflow to cool all components
• Select fans, heat sinks, and other thermal solution components that are low-cost yet meet all performance requirements
• Analyze thermal solutions provided to compare with various options and optimize cost vs performance
• Provide mechanical and thermal review for prototyping boards
• Document and analyze simulation and test results
• Write test plans
• Conduct thermal tests to qualify the design

Preferred Requirements:

• Masters Degree OR research in the relevant field
• Experience using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) tools to predict operating performance of the server is required.
• Working knowledge with Creo/Windchill is preferred.
• Knowledge of air & liquid cooling infrastructure and specifications in the data center is preferred.
• Current trends of electronics cooling for cloud computing is desired.
• Modeling and testing skills to validate a design is required. E.g. measuring airflow and temperature on the air bench is required.
• Data acquisition and ability to organize and summarize results is required.
• Code skills such as Matlab, Python, or Java to automate data collection and report generation is desired.
• Knowledge of computer firmware code and algorithms that set operating points, and fault conditions is desired.
• Knowledge of CAD, material strength, power consumption, and acoustics requirements and the impact of thermal designs on them is desired.

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