Thermal Engineer, Robotic Actuators
Dexmate, Fremont Office
The role
We are looking for a Thermal Engineer to develop cooling solutions for compact robot actuators, with a focus on liquid cooling. You will own thermal models and cooling-system design, then validate them on working hardware. You will work across motor, drive and mechanical design to sustain performance over realistic robot duty cycles.
What you will do
- Translate motor and inverter losses and robot duty cycles into thermal requirements, boundary conditions and operating limits.
- Develop conjugate heat-transfer and CFD models alongside reduced-order thermal models; correlate them to instrumented hardware.
- Design cold plates, stator jackets and heat paths, and specify coolant flow, pressure drop, pump operating points and system heat-rejection needs.
- Develop coolant routing through moving joints with mechanical engineers, accounting for motion, serviceability, sealing, compatibility and leakage risks.