LHH is looking for a full-time TPM of Thermal to aid a client of ours in the management and execution of thermal cooling solutions for their server and storage platform programs. This person will manage Thermal deliveries throughout the product lifecycle, driving design and development activities from product definition and planning through production, release, and end of life.
Responsibilities
Work with cross-functional teams to ensure thermal fan speed control implementation aligns with firmware timeline and program execution timeline
Lead cross-functional meetings across hardware, firmware, and thermal teams to drive thermal issues to closure.
Coordinate meetings with fan and heatsink vendors in collaboration with procurement to gather technology roadmap
Coordinate thermal deep dive meetings with CPU partners, and other ASIC companies as needed to gather technical collateral
Support management of thermal chamber allocation by priority, customer, and program
Work with legal and third-party labs to establish NDAs and purchase orders etc. to facilitate third party testing when needs arise.
Optimize utilization of thermal resources
Provide customers thermal lab tours and demo when they visit our facility
Requirements
Extensive experience and working knowledge of thermal chambers, thermocouples, data loggers, thermal test equipment, fans, heatsinks, and thermal interface material etc.
Experience in thermal design for servers and storage platforms
Experience developing and tuning thermal fan speed control algorithms
Experience running benchmarks like SPEC power and performance
Hands-on thermal chamber and thermal lab experience
Good understanding and knowledge of thermal CFD software like FloTherm
Strong Cross-functional team management, strong interpersonal skills and adaptive communication style.
Strong Project Management skills in developing schedules and tracking to milestones.
Minimum Qualifications
BS in Mechanical Engineering. Masters preferred.
6-8+ years of relevant experience in thermal design for server and storage platform development, 5+ years with Masters.