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# Thermal Performance Engineer

- **Company:** Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $130,700.0 - $205,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computational Fluid Dynamics, Hardware Design
- **Published:** July 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/d74339e0-d2dc-46f3-8a7e-5152043a2582

## About the Role

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

Typically, 10+ years' experience in similar roles as a Thermal/Mechanical Engineer.

Experience with fan, heat pipe, microfluidics 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 (Flotherm XT, FLOEFD, Icepak, or similar) and thermal mockups to validate thermal solutions in early architecture phases.

Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals and negotiate options at business unit and executive levels.

Understanding of ODM production process is a plus.

## Description

What a Thermal & Performance Engineer does at HP:

Provides front-end thermal architecture solutions via simulation for new products. This requires excellent thermal model development skills and relentless effort to find the best solution space for performance, size, cost and specific thermal targets for desktops, 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 your technical work and research to help your 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.

Provides guidance and mentoring to less-experienced staff members.


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