Principal Thermal-Mechanical Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Build, lead, and scale a high-performing team of thermo-mechanical engineers throughout Europe.

• Establish technical direction, recruit and mentor team members, and drive field execution.

• Work in partnership with sales to facilitate technical discussions, define PoC evaluations, and present product demonstrations.

• Assist customer engineering teams with simulation setup, complex test cases, and result interpretation.

• Manage customer enablement through onboarding, deployment pipelines, account expansion, training, and troubleshooting.

• Offer product guidance and convert customer feedback into actionable product features.

• Represent Vinci at industry conferences and semiconductor events by delivering technical presentations and live demonstrations.

• Monitor competitive technologies, industry trends, and market positioning.

• Validate and enhance complex real-world designs for thermal performance, product reliability, and time-to-market.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• Over 15 years of hands-on experience in thermo-mechanical simulations.

• Expert-level proficiency with commercial FEA software such as Ansys Mechanical, Abaqus, or similar tools.

• Extensive knowledge of semiconductor electronics packaging, advanced packaging technologies, or foundry ecosystems.

• Previous experience in customer-facing roles.

• Practical programming skills in Python or C++.

• Demonstrated managerial or technical leadership experience.

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication abilities.

• Familiarity with thermal management and cooling solutions and/or SI/PI workflows is a plus.

• Direct experience in commercializing technical software is advantageous.

• Previous experience in technical pre-sales, application engineering, or strategic technical sales is desirable.

• Ability to adopt physics-based workflows and AI-assisted design or simulation tools is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity.

• Bonus.

• Remote work arrangement.

• Moderate travel opportunities.

• Collaboration with world-class engineers and researchers.

• Fast-moving startup environment.