Company Generac Power Systems
Name Principal Thermal Design Engineer
Req # 64680
Employment Type Full Time
Shift 1st
Generac Clean Energy combines the speed and excitement of a technology startup with the resources and market power of an S&P 500 industry leader. Our careers offer boundless opportunity for energetic, mission-driven applicants who seek challenge and impact in a fast-paced culture of teaching, learning, and professional growth, developing solar+storage products and software for the clean energy revolution.
Join Generac Clean Energy as we drive to build energy solutions for a more resilient, sustainable world.
What You Will Be Doing
As a part of the mechanical group, you will be part of developing next generation clean energy solutions, accelerating our progress towards a sustainable energy future. You will play a leading role in the architecture, design, and validation of Generac’s clean energy products, with emphasis on system architecture and innovative thermal solutions.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Staff Thermal Design Engineer your responsibilities will include:
- Architecting, designing, modeling, & validating thermal solutions in ESS/pwr electronics
- Building CFD models and instrumented thermal test vehicles to validate models
- Creating innovative product enabling thermal solutions that balance form and function
- Optimizing thermal solutions for performance, DFM/DFA, size, acoustics, reliability, cost
- Providing clear and actionable guidance to engineering teams for detailed design
- Sizing & selecting components in air, liquid, and 2-phase thermal solutions
- Interfacing with thermal suppliers for component selection, validation, and integration
- Partnering with validation & reliability teams to define thermal test parameters
- Partnering with SW/FW to provide thermal policies for control algorithms
- Leading thermal analysis efforts within the mechanical engineering organization
- Mentoring engineers in thermal analysis, testing, and model correlation
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field
- Min 10 yrs of thermal design / analysis / validation exp
- Expertise in heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics
- Experience in architecting thermal solutions for complex electro-mechanical systems
- Experience modeling air & liquid cooled systems with solar radiation
- Experience in sizing and selection of fans, radiators, pumps, heat pipes, heat sinks, etc.
- Experience with instrumentation and data acquisition methods for thermal validation
- Advanced proficiency with Icepak, Fluent, Flotherm, Star CCM, or other CFD packages
Preferred Qualifications
- M.S. or PhD in Mechanical Engineering or related field specializing in thermodynamics
- Experience designing thermal solutions for battery energy storage systems
- Experience modeling battery pack failure modes including outgassing & propagation
- Experience with UL 9540A regulatory requirements and testing
- Demonstrated record bringing quality products from development into production
- Experience in thermal solutions for automotive or outdoor NEMA/IP rated products
- Experience with validation testing, product reliability, and failure analysis
- Experience with structural FEA, or other simulation packages
- Proficiency with 3D CAD (Solidworks preferred, other accepted)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.