Uber
Senior Thermal Engineer
$180K–$200K
Sunnyvale, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 26, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of thermal engineering experience; preferably in automotive, autonomous vehicles, robotics, aerospace, or high-power electronics.
- Education
- BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
About the job
Owns thermal design, validation, and troubleshooting for autonomous-vehicle hardware from prototype through production.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and validate thermal and liquid-cooling systems for vehicle compute units, power electronics, and sensors.
- Instrument prototypes and conduct bench, environmental-chamber, and vehicle testing; perform thermal and fluid calculations and correlate simulations with physical test data.
- Troubleshoot vehicle and hardware thermal issues, implement corrective actions, and work across teams to take designs through production release.
What they ask for
- BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- 5+ years of thermal engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience designing, building, and validating cooling systems, including liquid cooling, and testing thermal systems.
- Strong understanding of heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and electronics thermal management; experience with environmental chambers, vehicle-level hot/cold testing, and CAD (Solidworks, NX, Catia or equivalent).
Nice to have
- Experience with thermal/CFD tools.
- Automotive coolant-loop or vehicle thermal-management experience; familiarity with automotive validation, reliability testing, and production design processes.
Pay
USD $180,000 per year - USD $200,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Solidworks, NX, Catia, thermal/CFD
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