Thermal Engineer - New College Graduate at Nvidia Corporation in Santa Clara, California

Job Description:

NVIDIA has continuously reinvented itself over two decades. Our invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI - the next era of computing. NVIDIA is a "learning machine" that constantly evolves by adapting to new opportunities that are hard to solve, that only we can tackle, and that matter to the world. This is our life's work, to amplify human creativity and intelligence. Make the choice to join us today.

The Thermal Engineering Design Team at NVIDIA is seeking a Thermal Engineer - New College Grad (NCG) who will be responsible for thermal designs, testing, characterization, and prototyping activities as related to the development of solutions for Automotive, Servers, NVIDIA's Gaming add-in cards, Shield, High Performance Compute, and other products with emphasis on product applications. Although you will likely focus on one of these product areas to build and develop products, you will also collaborate and as needed support the team by contributing your expertise on improving thermal aspects of product designs generally. A high level of experience in technology development and design related to complex thermal optimization, would be of interest.

Be an integral member of a collaborative team which defines and develops thermal solutions from concept through production working with multi-functional Product Development teams and overseas partners. Your excellent communication skills, strong thermal and validation engineering technical background with product development knowledge including thermal engineering and related manufacturing processes, are important.

What you'll be doing:

• As a team, we support all products NVIDIA develops. Your contribution will be towards the development, specifications, design, and manufacturing implementation from package to board level thermal solutions through complete systems focusing on thermal enabling and design.
  
  


• The goals and objectives for this are carried out using state-of-the-art methods and technologies, analytical and computational analysis, and laboratory validation of prototypes. These methods and processes are developed within the NVIDIA cross functional thermal team.
  
  


• Investigating relevant technologies through the filter of product design concepts, driving relevant analysis and trade-offs aligned with product goals, and contributing to thermal solution product design from beginning to end (i.e. conceptualization to production).
  
  


• We challenge the status quo and the leading edge of computing. Your design of new thermal solutions is essential, so as a company, we can anticipate and enable product goals.
  
  


• Build physical prototype assemblies and instrument those assemblies for testing. We carry out testing, summarize and correlate data, modify, and improve our systems.
  
  


• As a team, one of our responsibilities is to build test reports and summaries, and generally document your efforts to broaden the knowledge of your team and the company.
  
  


• Continuously seek ways to learn and improve from lessons learned, into building better infrastructures and processes.
  
  

What we need to see:

• This position requires the ability to visualize and clarify product needs from fundamental concepts through system considerations to ensure optimized designs.
  
  


• Strong working knowledge of FEA/CFD theory, and general analysis tools related to heat transfer including excellent knowledge of at least one thermal analysis SW (e.g. IcePak, FloTHERM, Fluent) is crucial.
  
  


• Your proven hands-on experience and proficiency in thermal and mechanical evaluation of computer hardware to provide relevant and data driven product design suggestions (i.e. thermocouple placement, acquiring readings using automated data acquisition, assembly and tear downs) are required.
  
  


• Our team covers the product end to end, and we assess manufacturing and other supply partners. It would be ideal if you have experience in volume manufacturing, working with overseas manufacturers, experience in leading outside resources, component suppliers, and manufacturing partners.
  
  


• Relevant experience in product design and specific experience related to servers would be a plus!
  
  


• Will be completing or have recently completed MS or PHD in Mechanical Engineering.
  
  

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers. We have some of the most brilliant and talented people in the world working with us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you!

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression , sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.