Rhoda AI
Staff Thermal Systems Integration Engineer
$225K–$280K
Mountain View · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Experience
- At least 10 years of related experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
About the job
Own thermal management across the robot platform, from system architecture and simulation to integration, controls collaboration, and validation.
What you'll do
- Define and decompose thermal requirements; own cooling devices, thermal paths, and heat dissipation across the robot platform.
- Develop thermal simulations and lead verification of subsystem and robot-level performance across operating environments.
- Coordinate with Hardware, Controls, and Safety teams on thermal design, management strategies, and safety constraints.
What they ask for
- At least 10 years of related thermal systems analysis experience, including heat transfer, thermal modeling, and cooling device design and selection.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
- Hands-on experience with thermal simulation tools.
- Experience decomposing system-level thermal requirements into component and subsystem specifications.
Nice to have
- Experience with mainstream CFD tools, such as ANSYS Fluent, COMSOL, or OpenFOAM.
- Proficiency in MATLAB / Simulink or experience with Python for thermal modeling, analysis, or tooling.
Pay
$225K – $280K (base salary)
Tools
ANSYS Fluent, COMSOL, OpenFOAM, MATLAB / Simulink, Python, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, Flow
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