Meta
Thermal Design Engineer
$118K–$170K
Sunnyvale, CA · Full-time · Posted Jul 8, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years; no alternative stated.
- Education
- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience.
About the job
Develops and verifies thermal designs, models, and control systems for wearables and other hardware from prototypes through mass production.
What you'll do
- Develop physics-based thermal models and part, subsystem, and system-level thermal and fan models.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and optimize thermal designs and integrate thermal technologies.
- Support thermal verification and control-system development through prototype testing on physical hardware.
What they ask for
- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of thermal design experience related to server/hardware, advanced packaging, or wearables.
- Experience with CAD and CFD tools, empirical testing and model correlation, and programming in a scripting language.
- Fundamentals in heat transfer, thermal/fluid sciences, or related physics.
Nice to have
- M.S. in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience.
- Experience with consumer-electronics devices, thermal materials, control theory, statistical analysis, and responsible AI practices.
Pay
USD $118,000/year to $170,000/year base salary
Tools
MatLAB, Python, Julia, CFD, CAD, Fluent, StarCCM+, FloEFD
AI focus
Integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and drive measurable impact; apply responsible and ethical AI practices, and continue developing AI skills such as prompt/context engineering and agent orchestration.
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