d-Matrix · 2 months ago
Thermal Engineer - Contract
Santa Clara
Contract
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expd-Matrix is focused on unleashing the potential of generative AI through software and hardware innovation. They are seeking a Thermal Engineer to implement and support advanced cooling solutions for AI Inference systems in high-performance computing environments, responsible for thermal architecture and design.
AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud InfrastructureData CenterSemiconductor
Responsibilities
Develop and integrate innovative thermal solutions / applications by collaborating with design, testing, and engineering teams
Lead the design, deployment, and delivery of liquid cooled / air-cooled, HPC and AI supercomputing projects, ensuring alignment with performance, quality, and timeline expectations
Evaluate the system layout, power consumptions, air flow, acoustics, sensors and related mechanical requirements
Perform component, system and rack level thermal and mechanical design for cooling systems
Managed data center projects from conception to delivery, ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction
Understand system design requirements for High Performance Computing and AI workloads to drive platform configuration guides for x86 and ARM servers
Prepare product drawings, BOM, SOP, DFM and system design/test reports
Thermal/mechanical debugging, system optimization and documentation
Analyze structural and thermal aspects to ensure feasibility and specify thermal interface materials and manufacturing process
Provide identification and creation of new techniques to advance thermal/mechanical development and validation
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree required, preferably in Thermal, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related engineering discipline
8+ years' experience in data center solutions, HPC, AI infrastructure or equivalent is desirable
Experienced thermal engineer with extensive thermal characterization of next generation ASIC products
Develop and validate thermal models for various challenging thermal designs including die, package, system level thermal modeling
Responsibilities include thermal simulations, analysis, and testing to validate thermal solutions to meet the product requirements
Hands-on with experiences working with test equipment such as wind tunnels, thermal chamber, heat sinks, cold plates, etc
Collaborate with internal engineers to provide technical guidance to optimize thermal solutions including heat sink and liquid cooling solutions
Work with cross-functional teams including mechanical, electrical, and manufacturing
Preferred
Master's or PhD is preferred
Company
d-Matrix
D-Matrix is a platform that enables data centers to handle large-scale generative AI inference with high throughput and low latency.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$429MKey Investors
Temasek HoldingsTSVC
2025-11-12Series C· $275M
2023-09-06Series B· $110M
2022-04-20Series A· $44M
Leadership Team
Peter Buckingham
Senior Vice President, Software Engineering
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