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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
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
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