Thermal Engineer, PhD, Early Careers, Google Cloud Platform

HARDWARE_ENGINEERING
Taiwan
April 11, 2026
FULL_TIME

Job Overview

  • Date Posted
    April 11, 2026
  • Location
    Taiwan
  • Expiration date
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Job Description

2026-04-06T10:30:01.037Z

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Minimum qualifications:

  • PhD degree in Thermal Engineering, a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience in heat pipes, vapor chambers, heatsinks, thermal interface materials, fans, liquid cooling, or heat exchangers.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience in one or more advanced cooling techniques (e.g., liquid cooling, thermal interface materials, thermo-electric devices, two-phase heat transfer, or heat exchangers).
  • Experience capturing temperature, pressure, velocity, power, flow rates, acceleration, displacement, sound, FloTHERM, IcePak, and CAD.
  • Ability to start a full-time role in 2026.

About the job

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We’re the driving team behind Google’s groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Responsibilities

  • Provide thermal engineering insight to design and develop system and subsystem boards for next generation server and storage products.
  • Work with Google platform teams and cross-functional teams on new thermal management technology and solutions.
  • Develop appropriate thermal specifications and thermal test procedures as necessary to ensure thermal design quality by collaborating, supervising, mentoring, and motivating suppliers to design and deliver high thermal performance products.
  • Design thermal management hardware including material selection, heat sinks, heat exchangers, air movers, pumps, coldplate, quick disconnects, and all supporting equipment. Work with internal manufacturing teams and external fabrication vendors during the product development cycle.
  • Provide sustaining engineering support and optimize hardware design on existing products.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

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