Thermal & Performance Engineer - Military Veterans

Hewlett Packard

What a Thermal & Performance Engineer does at HP:

• Provides front-end thermal architecture solutions for new products requiring excellent thermal model development skills and relentless passion in finding best solution space for performance, size, cost and specific thermal targets for laptops, pc clients, and other devices.


• Leads and works with thermal hardware engineers from outsourced development partners responsible for all stages of mechanical and thermal development for complex products and platforms, including solution design, validation, tooling, and testing. Leverages domain expertise as a subject matter expert in thermal design to influence our outsource partners and suppliers to provide solutions that bring value or differentiation to HP devices.


• Drives innovation and integration of new thermal solution technologies and quality initiatives into projects and activities in the manufacturing and/or engineering organization.


• Manages and expands relationships with outsourced development partners on electrical hardware design and development.


• Provides program progress, escalations, and issue analysis to product stakeholders; collaborates with management and internal manufacturing and development partners to recommend and implement changes to product, processes, or business practices to resolve escalated issues and produce solutions.


• Documents technical work and research to help colleagues, improve the product, and improve the development process.


• Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with technology and development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality.

Individuals who do well in this role at HP usually possess:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Thermal Fluids.


• Typically 7 to 10 years' experience in similar roles as Thermal/Mechanical Engineer.


• Experience with fan, heat pipe, and vapor chamber design.


• Experience relating skin temperature, acoustics, and system Performance.


• Experience designing sheet metal and plastic parts and associated production tooling and processes.


• Excellent thermal analysis skills using CFD tools (Flowtherm, Icepak, or similar) and thermal mockups to validate thermal solution in early architecture phase.


• Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, and design proposals.


• Understanding of ODM production process is a plus.