About the Role
Graphcore is a leader in AI computing systems, designing advanced semiconductors and data center hardware. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is building the future of AI computing, with a new AI Engineering Campus in Austin playing a central role.
Responsibilities
- Ensure overall product functionality and meet all applicable technical thermal specifications.
- Responsible for the overall thermal solution, creation of specifications, design review and qualification, and testing and validation.
- Involves deep understanding of thermal management principles, simulation, testing, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver high-performance and reliable server cooling systems.
- Designing, developing, modifying and evaluating liquid cooling solutions focusing on direct liquid cooling (DLC).
- Working with select ODM vendors to manage product thermal specification, development schedule, meet deliverables, resolve technical issues, and ensure product meets specification, cost and quality goals.
- Guiding and directing ODM vendors to deliver thermal designs, implementation, monitor testing, review cost and review technical design information to provide clear directions to ODM.
- Working with third-party vendors and suppliers to ensure product features are being achieved.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, Master’s or Ph. D degrees in mechanical engineering.
- Minimum of 5 years of server thermal design experience.
- Experience in system level thermal design focusing on DLC and cold plate cooling heatsink technology as well as system level control logic.
Skills
- Understanding the basic foundations of thermal fluid dynamics and heat transfer.
- Ability to lead the design and development of liquid cooling solutions, including conceptualization, prototyping, simulation, validation, and optimization of heat sinks, cold plates, CDU/CDM, and other liquid cooling components.
- Ability to perform thermal simulations and analyses utilizing industry-standard software (e.g., FlowTherm, ANSYS, COMSOL) to analyze thermal behavior and optimize design for performance and efficiency.
- Ability to develop and execute test plans to validate thermal solutions, ensuring compliance with industry standards and performance goals.
- Experience working closely with system architects, chip and board designers, and software/firmware engineers to integrate liquid cooling solutions into server products.
- Understanding of microprocessor architecture and thermal profiles.
- Understanding of system level thermal design focusing on fan and heatsink technology.
- Experience with system level thermal and fan control algorithm.
- Experience effectively dealing with conflict.
- Communicates well verbally, in writing, and graphically.
- Ability to establish clear goals and formulate plans to achieve them.
- Good root-cause analysis and problem-solving skills.
- Works independently and as part of a team.
- Excited about technology and has the desire to learn new tasks and technologies.
Location
- Austin
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior technical engineer
- Minimum of 5 years of server thermal design experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering
- Master’s degree in mechanical engineering
- Ph. D degree in mechanical engineering
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Commuter benefits
- Wellness services
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
About the Company
- Graphcore is a globally recognized leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems.
- The company designs advanced semiconductors and data center hardware that provide the specialized processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption.
- As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies.
- We are opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Austin, which will play a central role in Graphcore's work building the future of AI computing.
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences and are committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and want to build a work environment where everyone is happy, productive and respectful so they can do their best work.
- If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, just let us know.
- We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we're committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone.
- We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us.
- We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.
