Thermal Engineer

We are Generac, a leading energy technology company committed to powering a smarter world.

Over the 60 plus years of Generac’s history, we’ve been dedicated to energy innovation. From creating the home standby generator market category, to our current evolution into an energy technology solutions company, we continue to push new boundaries.

Generac Clean Energy combines the speed and excitement of a technology startup with the resources and market power of an S&P 500 industry leader. Our careers offer boundless opportunity for energetic, mission-driven applicants who seek challenge and impact in a fast-paced culture of teaching, learning, and professional growth, developing solar+storage products and software for the clean energy revolution.

Join Generac Clean Energy as we drive to build energy solutions for a more resilient, sustainable world.

As a part of the thermal group, you will be part of developing next generation clean energy solutions, accelerating our progress towards a sustainable energy future. You will play a key role in the architecture, design, validation, of Generac’s clean energy products, with emphasis on design and validation of innovative thermal solutions.

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Architecting, designing, modeling, and validating thermal solutions in ESS/power electronics

- Building CFD models and instrumented thermal test vehicles to validate models

- Creating innovative product enabling thermal solutions that balance form and function

- Optimizing thermal solutions for performance, DFM/DFA, size, acoustics, reliability, cost

- Providing clear and actionable guidance to engineering teams for detailed design

- Sizing and selecting components for passive, air, liquid, and 2-phase thermal solutions

- Interfacing with thermal suppliers for component selection, validation, and integration

- Partnering with validation & reliability teams to define thermal test parameters

- Partnering with SW/FW to provide thermal policies for control algorithms

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related field

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

- Knowledge modeling passive-cooling, air cooling, liquid cooling, 2-phase, batteries, solar radiation

- Knowledge in sizing and selection of fans, radiators, heat sinks, heat pipes, etc.

- Knowledge with instrumentation and data acquisition methods for thermal validation

- Knowledge proficiency with Ansys, Flotherm, or Star CCM (or other leading CFD packages)

- Knowledge of heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics

Physical Demands

: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 - 50 pounds. Specific conditions of this job are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision and ability to adjust focus. Occasional travel.

“We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.”