Hybrid Thermal Engineer

at Snap Inc.

• Job title: Thermal Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $229,000 - $343,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Postgraduate Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Los Angeles, United States

About the role

• Staff Thermal Engineer in charge of architecting thermal management strategies for consumer devices at Snap Inc. Collaborating with product, software, and hardware teams in an innovative tech company.

Responsibilities

• Architect thermal management and mitigation strategies for a new class of consumer device
• Partner with key internal stakeholders to assess the system impact of thermal predictions to inform product architecture, product roadmap, and technical roadmap
• Model transient and steady state thermal behaviors; refining the model and design through validation and correlation with measured real world performance throughout development.
• Co-develop scalable thermal designs alongside engineering and operations partners including selecting materials, TIMs, and heat spreaders to achieve system requirements
• Partner with product, software, and hardware teams to architect, design, and implement system-level power and thermal throttling strategies to support product vision
• Specify and define boundary conditions and frameworks to predict system performance
• Develop and drive design validation, qualification, reliability, and compliance for Spectacles thermal components
• Coordinate internal, external, and vendor partner resources to achieve product goals.
• Actively monitor thermal, consumer electronic, and augmented reality industry best practices, trends and state of the art to inform the product roadmap.

Requirements

• MS or PhD in physics, materials science or mechanical engineering with emphasis in heat transfer and fluid dynamics
• 11+ years relevant experience in thermal simulation, measurement, validation and correlation
• Demonstrated experience delivering thermal solutions in consumer electronics products
• Ability to travel up to 20%
• Strong understanding of passive thermal mitigation strategies leveraged in consumer electronics including spreaders, heat pipes, and vapor chambers
• Experience in thermal analysis and thermal measurement
• Experience with FloEFD, FloTherm, FlowSimulation and / or ANSYS Icepak
• Experience with reduced order modeling and analytical approaches
• Familiarity with Cad tools such as NX, Solidworks and / or Creo
• Experience scaling thermal designs for mass production including characterizing, validating, and measuring designs performance across populations and variance
• Strong communication skills and experience sharing results with team members and leadership

Benefits

• paid parental leave
• comprehensive medical coverage
• emotional and mental health support programs
• compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success