Apple
Thermal Engineer
$150K–$278K
San Francisco Bay Area, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of job experience in heat transfer, fluid dynamics, or a related field.
- Education
- B.S.
About the job
Design and validate thermal systems for next-generation Mac products, balancing performance targets, system constraints, and customer experience.
What you'll do
- Build thermal system models and use heat-transfer fundamentals and simulation tools to guide design.
- Optimize thermal solutions, communicate design tradeoffs, and collaborate across teams.
- Support prototyping and early validation through successful mass production ramp-up.
What they ask for
- B.S. and 5+ years of job experience in heat transfer, fluid dynamics, or a related field.
- Strong understanding of conduction, convection, and radiation.
- Experience with data processing and analysis.
- Familiarity with numerical modeling techniques and concepts.
Nice to have
- M.S. or Ph.D. in heat transfer, fluid dynamics, or a related field; expertise with commercial CFD tools.
- Scripting languages for data processing and visualization; experience with thermal components, experiments, and measurement techniques.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 (base salary range)
Tools
Fluent, Icepak, AEDT, StarCCM+, FlowTherm, python, MATLAB, JMP
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