Thermal Engineer, PhD, Early Careers, Google Cloud

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Minimum qualifications:

• PhD degree in Thermal Engineering, a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in heat pipes, vapor chambers, heatsinks, thermal interface materials, fans, liquid cooling, or heat exchangers.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in one or more advanced cooling techniques (e.g., liquid cooling, thermal interface materials, thermo-electric devices, two-phase heat transfer, or heat exchangers).
• Experience capturing temperature, pressure, velocity, power, flow rates, acceleration, displacement, sound, FloTHERM, IcePak, and CAD.
• Ability to start a full-time role in 2026.
  
  

About the jobThe AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving team behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Responsibilities

• Provide thermal engineering insight to design and develop system and subsystem boards for next generation server and storage products.
• Work with Google platform teams and cross-functional teams on new thermal management technology and solutions.
• Develop appropriate thermal specifications and thermal test procedures as necessary to ensure thermal design quality by collaborating, supervising, mentoring, and motivating suppliers to design and deliver high thermal performance products.
• Design thermal management hardware including material selection, heat sinks, heat exchangers, air movers, pumps, coldplate, quick disconnects, and all supporting equipment. Work with internal manufacturing teams and external fabrication vendors during the product development cycle.
• Provide sustaining engineering support and optimize hardware design on existing products.
  
  
  

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