Thermal Engineer

Title: Thermal Test Engineer

Contract (C2C)

Bay Area, CA (Onsite)

Job Summary:

• Responsibilities: Design, build, instrument, and automate testing equipment for electrical, thermal, and mechanical testing
• Work together with Design Engineers, Reliability scientists, Material scientists, Quality, and Service to identify failure modes and generate design validation and reliability test plans
• Perform component-level, system-level, and vehicle-level validation and reliability testing, simulating realistic and accelerated dynamic and environmental conditions
• Collaborate with test technicians as peers to achieve test objectives
• Investigate Power Electronics assembly and subassembly failures to drive product development and test improvement
• Identify and execute experiments targeting new technologies or critical failures
• Interface and simulate complex vehicular systems to validate firmware/hardware interactions
• Create novel ways to apply skills learned in the test lab to benefit vehicle products

Skills Required:

• Basic working knowledge of Analog, Digital, and Power Electronics Circuits, general knowledge in Power Electronics, DCDC or DCAC Converters, High Voltage Circuits, Motor Drive/Control Circuit, Sensing circuits, and Microcontrollers is preferred
• Working experience with electrical test equipment (such as multimeters, DAQs, oscilloscopes, power supplies, and function generator) and hand tools and power tools
• Familiar with an object-oriented coding language and scripting (Python, MATLAB, etc.), experience in Python and data visualization is preferred
• Comfort with EDA software of Altium, OrCAD, Cadence, Eagle or equivalent. Working knowledge of mechanical CAD software of SolidWorks, CATIA or equivalent is preferred
• Basic understanding of Statics, Mechanics of Materials, Fluids, Heat Transfer, Measurement and Instrumentation, and Linear Circuits