Vinci
Member of Technical Staff - Thermal Simulation Engineer
$150K–$210K
Palo Alto HQ · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 6, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years in thermal or simulation engineering; graduate research counts. Preferred: 10+ years of thermal engineering, with shipped hardware behind it.
- Education
- BS or higher in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a comparably rigorous technical field.
About the job
Validates thermal simulation solvers, creates training reference cases, runs customer analyses, and feeds findings into product and research.
What you'll do
- Benchmark solvers and methods against competitor FEA tools and measured data; help set release accuracy standards.
- Generate and curate model-training cases, and use the product to identify bugs and workflow issues.
- Run and present customer cases, support onboarding, and relay field observations to research and product.
What they ask for
- BS or higher in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a comparably rigorous technical field.
- Hands-on thermal or thermo-mechanical CFD/FEA experience with a named tool or equivalent.
- Practical meshing knowledge, including mesh strategy, refinement, and qualification.
- CAD fluency and ability to reason from first principles; strong communication skills.
Nice to have
- Coding or scripting experience; Python is used, and other scripting backgrounds count.
- Semiconductor packaging or high-power-density electronics experience; customer-facing experience, solver validation, and Linux comfort are also listed as preferred.
Pay
$150K – $210K (base salary)
Tools
Ansys Icepak, Flotherm, Fluent, Ansys Mechanical, COMSOL, Python, MATLAB, LabVIEW
AI focus
Validates thermal physics foundation-model results, generates reference cases for model training, and prototypes tooling with AI coding assistants.
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