Thermal Design Engineer

What you'll do

• Design thermal architectures and cooling solutions across robot subsystems from concept through volume production.
• Build analytical, CFD, and FEA thermal models and validate them through hardware testing and environmental stress tests.
• Define thermal limits and protection logic with electrical, firmware, and controls teams; contribute to scalable manufacturing and supplier selection.

What they ask for

• 5+ years of experience, or equivalent "hard tech" projects, designing and validating thermal solutions for complex electromechanical systems.
• Strong fundamentals in heat transfer and working knowledge of two-phase cooling and heat-pipe or vapor-chamber design.
• Hands-on experience with CFD tools and thermal FEA, plus testing and debugging thermal performance on real hardware.
• Experience solving thermal problems in at least one of high-torque-density motors or actuators, dense power electronics, or compute; proficiency in SolidWorks, Catia, or similar CAD tools.

Nice to have

• Experience in robotics, prosthetics, EV powertrains, drones, or other dense electromechanical systems.
• Familiarity with motor or actuator thermal modeling; liquid or hybrid cooling; or a PhD or research experience in thermal sciences.

Tools

Ansys Icepak, Flotherm, SolidWorks Flow Simulation, SolidWorks, Catia, CFD, FEA

AI focus

The role supports the thermal design of industrial robots used in Physical AI systems; no AI development work is specified.