Job Details

Overview

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. As a part of the thermal group, you will be part of developing next generation clean energy solutions, accelerating our progress towards a sustainable energy future. You will play a key role in the architecture, design, validation, of Generacs clean energy products, with emphasis on design and validation of innovative thermal solutions.

Responsibilities

• Architecting, designing, modeling, and validating thermal solutions in ESS/power 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 and selecting components for passive, 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

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related field
• 5+ years of experience working in thermal solutions on power electronics

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge modeling passive-cooling, air cooling, liquid cooling, 2-phase, batteries, solar radiation
• Knowledge in sizing and selection of fans, radiators, heat sinks, heat pipes, etc.
• Knowledge with instrumentation and data acquisition methods for thermal validation
• Knowledge proficiency with Ansys, Flotherm, or Star CCM (or other leading CFD packages)
• Knowledge of heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Electric Power Generation