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Manager, Mechanical Engineering

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  • The posting mentions thermal engineering, mechanical design and liquid cooling among its tools and skills.
  • Level classes it as a senior role.
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Manage multidisciplinary teams developing advanced cooling and mechanical solutions for high-speed networking and AI infrastructure.

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NVIDIA is looking for an outstanding Mechanical Engineering Manager to join our Networking Thermal Engineering team. In this role, you will lead the development of next-generation cooling and mechanical solutions for high-speed communication systems. You will work in a meaningful, fast-growing, and highly professional environment where your contributions have a direct impact on advanced technologies enabling the future of AI and networking infrastructure. As part of the Networking Thermal Engineering team, you will support a wide range of NVIDIA products, helping address increasing power density challenges through innovative, scalable, and practical engineering solutions.

What you will be doing:

  • Manage and lead three complementary teams of 15+ Engineers across three complementary teams, including a Mechanical Analysis team covering chip to rack level structural simulations
  • Lead the Mechanical Design team developing next-generation thermal/mechanical solution and Materials experts enabling advanced material, TIM, and joining technologies.
  • direct a multidisciplinary R&D team engaged in a variety of areas, including mechanical design supporting thermal solutions, mechanical analysis, soldering technologies, materials and manufacturing processes for production lines, etc.
  • Support designs of advanced thermal solutions for NVIDIA next generation products, focusing on both liquid cooled and air-cooled thermal solutions.

What we need to see:

  • M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent degree.
  • 8+ overall years of experience and at least 4+ years of proven leadership experience managing thermal and mechanical development teams.
  • Strong experience in mechanical and thermal analysis methodologies.
  • Proven experience developing advanced thermal solutions, including liquid cooling technologies, from concept through mass production.
  • Strong understanding of thermo-mechanical challenges in high-power electronic systems.
  • Experience working across multiple physical scales, from chip level to system level.
  • Ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering activities and drive execution.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • Liquid cooling scaling challenges.
  • Advanced TIM / materials direction.
  • Enabling new technologies.
  • Balancing innovation with manufacturability.
  • Chip → rack system thinking.

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking people in the world working for us. Are you a creative student who loves a challenge? Are you ready to become the engineer you always wanted to be? Come and be part of the best thermal team in the industry!

NVIDIA is committed to encouraging a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

How we rate this

Manager, Mechanical Engineering at NVIDIA rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Thermal EngineeringMechanical DesignLiquid CoolingLeadershipStructural Simulation

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  3. Tell me about a project where liquid cooling was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where leadership was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Tell me about a project where structural simulation was part of your work. What did you do?

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