What are the responsibilities and job description for the Battery Thermal Engineer position at OSI Engineering?
A globally leading consumer device company headquartered in Cupertino, CA is looking for a Battery Thermal Engineer to join their team.
Job Responsibilities:
• As a member of the Battery Modeling team, you will be responsible for Thermal modeling for all products.
• Develop of state of art Thermal as well as multi-physics finite volume (FE) models of cell, pack, and BMS sub-systems.
• Generate models/capability to convert power map into thermal outputs.
• Perform advanced Thermal/CFD simulations to evaluate and enhance understanding of the various boundary conditions at the cell, pack, BMS sub-systems around battery packs well as in system.
• Use best in class tools and solvers to generate the necessary simulation models and results.
• Develop optimized workflows and/or reusable templates for regularly required thermal simulations.
• Develop and implement thermal modeling best practices.
• Work with CAE vendors to drive the functionality improvements to better serve the CAE needs of the group.
• Explore new analysis types and solutions, including topological optimization.
• Extract Reduced Order Models (ROM) from CFD simulations to speed up the exploratory studies
Candidate Qualifications:
• MS/PhD 3 yrs industry experience
• Mechanical engineering background with strong foundation in CFD and thermal modeling
• Must-have expert level skillset related to Ansys electronic desktop (AEDT) and Icepak in AEDT
• Python or other scripting languages
Preferred Qualifications:
• MS/PhD 5 yrs relevant experience
• Familiarity in Cadence Allegro and electronics layout design
• Familiarity with li-ion cells and battery packs
• Familiarity with NX, Comsol
• Experience in electronics cooling
Type: Contract
Duration: 6 months with extension
Work Location: Cupertino, CA (onsite)
Pay rate: $74.00 - $89.00 ph (DOE)
Salary : $74 - $89