Thermal Lab Lead

Location: On-site in San Jose, United States; fully in-person team. Relocation support is available for those moving to San Jose.

Company

Builds hardware for frontier intelligence by co-designing chips, racks, software, and manufacturing systems focused on high-throughput, low-latency inference workloads.

What you will do

• Lead day-to-day thermal lab operations, including test benches, equipment, consumables inventory, procedures, maintenance, calibration, and safe operating practices.
• Develop test plans and procedures with thermal engineering, and own test setup, instrumentation, execution, data-quality review, and reporting against agreed objectives and acceptance criteria.
• Develop, maintain, debug, and validate automation for test execution, data acquisition, data reduction, and analysis.
• Coordinate testing requests across teams, establish priorities, forecast equipment, capacity, and staffing bottlenecks, and provide technical direction to thermal technicians.
• Plan future lab capabilities and infrastructure, and assist with installation, integration, and commissioning of primary and secondary cooling loops, CDUs, and liquid-cooled racks.
• Assemble thermal test vehicles, including wiring and soldering PCBs and heaters, and assist with thermal lab design and buildout in Taiwan.

Requirements

• Relevant technical education, such as an associate’s degree, technical diploma, or bachelor’s degree in engineering, engineering technology, mechatronics, instrumentation, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Hands-on experience testing single-phase liquid-cooled assemblies, including cold plates, manifolds, quick disconnects, and CDUs.
• Experience selecting, installing, and troubleshooting flowmeters, thermocouples, pressure transducers, chillers, and liquid-cooling test equipment.
• Ability to independently build and troubleshoot test setups, assess measurement quality, and document reliable results.
• Working knowledge of heat transfer and fluid flow sufficient to interpret test results and troubleshoot thermal-fluid systems.
• Experience developing, debugging, and validating test automation and data-analysis workflows.
• Experience coordinating competing testing priorities and providing technical direction to technicians.
• Excellent organizational and documentation skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully in-person work in San Jose with cross-disciplinary collaboration between engineering and research.
• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage, plus a $500 monthly credit for waiving medical benefits.
• $2,500 monthly housing subsidy for employees living within walking distance of the office.
• Relocation support for moving to San Jose, wellness benefits, and daily lunch and dinner at the office.
• Unlimited compute budget subject to return-on-investment justification.