Staff Thermal Engineer

The position is for a Mechanical Engineer in the Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG), based in Bangalore, Karnataka

This is an exciting role in the ThinkSystem Server Development organization that has a strong focus to be the #1 trusted IT Partner in the Datacenter market

The pace of technological change in this market is rapid, and our development engineers are constantly challenged to improve the thermal performance and efficiency of our products

Lenovo is looking for an engineer with a strong desire to innovate thermal solutions for our server products

Basic Requirements:

Bachelors Degree in Mechanical/Thermal Engineering.

7+ years of in-depth experience in thermal design for Server products OR equivalent products is strongly preferred.

Review server system concepts and market requirements and enable a thermal solution that is compliant with the specifications of the critical components.

Ensure that the printed circuit board layouts permit thermal solution placement and adequate airflow / waterflow to cool all components

Select fans, heat sinks, and other thermal solution components that are low-cost yet meet all performance requirements

Analyze thermal solutions provided to compare with various options and optimize cost vs performance

Provide mechanical and thermal review for prototyping boards

Document and analyze simulation and test results

Write test plans

Conduct thermal tests to qualify the design

Preferred Requirements:

Masters Degree OR research in the relevant field

Experience using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) tools to predict operating performance of the server is required.

Working knowledge with Creo/Windchill is preferred.

Knowledge of air & liquid cooling infrastructure and specifications in the data center is preferred.

Current trends of electronics cooling for cloud computing is desired.

Modeling and testing skills to validate a design is required. E.g. measuring airflow and temperature on the air bench is required.

Data acquisition and ability to organize and summarize results is required.

Code skills such as Matlab, Python, or Java to automate data collection and report generation is desired.

Knowledge of computer firmware code and algorithms that set operating points, and fault conditions is desired.

Knowledge of CAD, material strength, power consumption, and acoustics requirements and the impact of thermal designs on them is desired.

Full time