System Thermal Engineer, Ring
DESCRIPTION
Ring is looking for a Hardware Development Engineer who will be a part of our global electrical engineering team, playing a critical role in ensuring the highest product quality standards and driving continuous improvement for the products. Development of full devices requires in system level design for SoC platform, Memory, Sensors, Power Architecture, and related peripheral function while integrating with technologies like radar, cameras, audio, WiFi, 4G LTE, BlueTooth, etc.
You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within a fast-paced environment. You are expected to represent as a hardware design and validation owner and dive deep into the difficult problem for the root cause analysis and arrange appropriated solution for it.
Key job responsibilities
* Perform thermal compliance verification of systems and components
* Collaborate with design and production teams to develop detailed thermal validation plans against product requirements
* Analyze and interpret thermal/power data from validation tests to offer insights and recommendations
* Design fixtures for thermal validation, thermal data collection and power measurement
* Work cross-functionally to troubleshoot thermal issues identified during validation
* Document thermal validation and troubleshooting processes, and provide high-quality thermal reports
* Verify thermal performance for second source qualification, cost down design, manufacturing efficiency
* Develop and contribute in testing automation
* Calibrate, management and maintain thermal testing equipment.
A day in the life
As a member of the hardware engineering team you will own next-generation product design and validation, delights our customers with best quality. You will interact with an versatile team of engineers to design, develop, validate, and launch products at large scale. This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position. You will work with experts in multiple technology areas. You have high standards for yourself and everyone you work with. You will be constantly looking for ways to improve performance, quality, and cost.
About the team
We’re a friendly team, always eager to bring new and exciting ideas to the table. Our drive pushed us to always aim higher, we’re not afraid to think outside the box. Though we may have our debates, once we decide on something, we all stand by it firmly, we have backbone, disagree and commit. And we always insist for the highest standard. In our team, every voice matters, and every effort counts.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years thermal experience in design and validation of systems
- Experience with SoC and system thermal measurement
- Experience with thermal and power data analysis
- Experience with development and/or selection of thermal control hardware (e.g., materials, TIM, heatsink, fan, temperature sensors)
- Proficiency in thermal simulation tools such as FloTherm, FloTherm XT, and FloEFD
- Familiar with thermal validation equipment (e.g. thermal chamber, data logger, thermocouple, IR, anemometer)
- Knowledge of heat conduction, heat convention and radiation.
- Knowledge of SoC power and thermal characteristics
- Basic Knowledge of firmware operation.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with the design and development of high-volume consumer IoT products
- Expertise in thermal design and validation for battery-powered devices
- Strong background in mechanical design and its integration with thermal management
- Experience with CAD (PTC Creo or SolidWorks) to design test fixtures and create drawings for manufacturing
- Experience in developing automated functional testing strategies to ensure product quality
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in a global, cross-functional team environment.