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System Thermal Design Staff Engineer

AMD· Engineering
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Penang, MalaysiaFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Lead thermal design and validation for next-generation server, AI, and datacenter platforms; provide technical leadership and ODM engineering execution management.

Responsibilities

  • Lead system-level thermal design and validation activities for CPU/GPU server and AI platforms.
  • Develop and execute thermal validation plans, methodologies, and system thermal design strategies.
  • Drive thermal characterization and thermal margin analysis across various workloads, configurations, and environmental conditions.
  • Lead thermal issue debugging, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
  • Perform thermal chamber testing, instrumentation setup, and thermal data analysis.
  • Collaborate with BIOS, power, SI/PI, mechanical, platform, architecture, and other cross-functional engineering teams to optimize system thermal solutions.
  • Drive fan tuning, airflow optimization, and overall system thermal performance.
  • Correlate laboratory measurements with simulation and CFD results to improve prediction accuracy and design decisions.
  • Support platform bring-up, qualification, and customer issue resolution.
  • Provide technical leadership and manage ODM thermal execution, including requirements alignment, deliverable planning, design and validation reviews, issue closure, and schedule tracking.
  • Ensure ODM engineering deliverables meet defined technical requirements, quality expectations, validation criteria, and program milestones.
  • Drive ODM accountability through clear technical requirements, milestone tracking, review criteria, risk identification, and timely closure of technical gaps and issues.
  • Review and provide technical direction on ODM thermal designs, simulation results, validation plans, test reports, and corrective actions.
  • Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership within the team.
  • Drive continuous improvement in thermal design, validation methodologies, technical processes, and engineering execution.”

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of relevant thermal engineering experience.
  • Strong experience in system-level thermal design and validation for CPU/GPU platforms.
  • Experience with server, datacenter, AI, or high-performance computing systems.
  • Proven ability to lead complex technical activities and drive cross-functional engineering collaboration.
  • Experience leading thermal engineering activities with ODM/OEM partners for server or datacenter platform development.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage ODM technical deliverables, including requirements definition, design reviews, validation execution, issue closure, and schedule alignment.
  • Ability to provide technical direction to external engineering partners while maintaining clear ownership, quality standards, deliverable expectations, and accountability.
  • Strong problem-solving, root-cause analysis, and debugging skills.
  • System thermal design and optimization.
  • Thermal chamber testing.
  • Thermal instrumentation and thermocouple setup.
  • Thermal characterization and workload validation.
  • Thermal margin analysis.
  • Hotspot identification and airflow validation.
  • Fan tuning and system thermal optimization.
  • CPU/GPU thermal validation.
  • Thermal telemetry and data analysis.
  • Validation methodology development.
  • System bring-up and issue debugging.
  • Experience with thermal simulation and CFD correlation.
  • Airflow and thermal modeling experience.
  • Experience with FloTHERM.
  • Experience with ANSYS Icepak.
  • Experience with AMD EPYC platforms.
  • Experience with GPU server or AI systems.
  • Experience with NVIDIA HGX or multi-GPU platforms.
  • Experience with AI server thermal validation.
  • Liquid cooling design and/or validation experience is preferred.
  • Validation automation or scripting experience is preferred.

Skills

Required:Thermal designThermal validationODM/OEM coordinationDebugging & root-cause analysis

Benefits

  • Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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