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Thermal Principal Engineer

Dell
Franklin, USA
Full-time
Lead · 8+ years experience
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Qualifications

  • Take the first step towards your dream career
  • Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table. Here’s what we are looking for with this role:
  • Essential Requirements
  • BS or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on thermal engineering + 8 years of relevant industry experience
  • Experience in CFD modelling for internal flow and electronic cooling applications
  • Proven experience instrumenting thermal tests and test plans
  • Strong communication skills with multi-disciplinary teams; strong drive to work through challenging compromises to achieve the optimal thermal solution
  • Desirable Requirements
  • Experience working with CREO, experience with air and liquid cooling in server or network electronics industry
  • Knowledge of cooling requirements for GPU’s or CPU’s or NPU’s or rack L11
  • Compensation
  • Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $164k - $226k.
  • Benefits and Perks of working at Dell Technologies
  • Your life. Your health. Supported by your benefits. You can explore the overall benefits experience that awaits you as a Dell Technologies team member — right now at MyWellatDell.com

Responsibilities

  • Thermal Senior Principal Engineer
  • Join us as a Thermal Senior Principal Engineer on our Network Engineer Hardware team in Franklin, MA or Austin, TX to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact.
  • What you’ll achieve
  • As a Thermal Engineer, you will be responsible for the thermal architecture, design, and validation of Dell's next-generation Network Switches (L10) and Network L11 integrated rack solutions. Working across mechanical, electrical, hardware, power, and system engineering teams, you will develop innovative cooling solutions for high-performance networking platforms supporting AI, HPC, and cloud workloads. Utilizing thermal simulation, laboratory testing, characterization, and data-driven analysis, you will evaluate product concepts, drive thermal feasibility assessments, and optimize system performance, reliability, and efficiency. The role includes ownership of key thermal technologies and roadmaps that enable future generations of networking, optics, and rack-scale infrastructure solutions.
  • You will:
  • Work with key stakeholders to align on product requirements, performance metrics, and boundary conditions
  • Develop approach to evaluate all thermal aspects of a product concept, considering constraints on prototype availability, product schedule, and thermal risk
  • Develop thermal solutions internally or with vendor partners including heat sinks, cold plates, air movers, air shrouds, sealing, thermal interface material, venting, thermal controls, and more
  • Present findings to thermal engineers and management to identify problem areas and opportunities to improve design for cost, power, and cooling efficiency
  • Follow existing practices and procedures for product development. Develop and improve practices and procedures where necessary or desirable

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