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Thermal Modeling Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA 94089

Posted: 08/23/2024 Employment Type: Direct Industry: Renewable Energy Job Number: 84974

Job Description

Our client's Heat-to-Power R&D team is developing a novel heat-to-power discharge unit for their combined heat and power (CHP) long-duration energy storage product, which will enable them to expand the scope of industrial decarbonization efforts.
As part of this R&D team, you will be in charge of thermal modeling of this discharge unit and its subsystems.

Job Requirements

Roles & Responsibilities
  • Conduct thermal and mechanical analyses, including Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT), and Finite Element Analysis (FEA).
  • Develop robust heat transfer models to quantify performance of novel heat-engine and CHP product for various geometries, considering thermo-mechanical stress, conduction, radiation, and convection.
  • Collaborate with mechanical design and test engineers to establish thermal and system requirements, inform component selection, and help make the right tradeoffs for manufacturability. 
  • Support the development and execution of test plans at both bench and full scale, to validate models.
  • Define and maintain thermal requirements for components and systems, and contribute to cost and performance roadmaps.
  • Develop and maintain internal design practices and documentation.
  • As needed, assist with material selection, detailed mechanical design, prototyping and testing.
  • Mentoring junior engineers, sharing thermal intuition and design approaches.

Key Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in thermal engineering, with 3+ years of that with focus on CFD and thermal FEA modeling.
  • Strong knowledge and understanding of heat transfer, fluid dynamics, CFD, transport phenomena, and thermodynamics fundamentals.
  • Experience working collaboratively in teams that built first-of-a-kind hardware systems.
  • Ability to work both independently and closely in teams, as required.
  • Proficiency in data analysis and presentation.
  • High level of proficiency in computer-aided design (CAD), preferably SolidWorks.
  • Expert-level proficiency in thermal modeling packages, preferably Ansys.
  • Attention to detail with strong verbal and written communication skills.

Additional Qualifications Desired
  • Graduate degree in mechanical engineering, materials science, or equivalent.
  • Experience with modeling systems with combined heat-transfer modes (conduction, convection, radiation).
  • Experience with modeling of equipment for high-temperature (> 500 C) environments.
  • Willingness to stretch into different roles in the team as needed, including mechanical design, material evaluation, prototyping and testing.
 

Senior level pay range: $138,000 USD - $179,000/year
Staff level pay range: $163,000 USD - $212,000/year
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