Principal Thermal Solutions Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Build, lead, and expand a high-performing team of thermal engineers throughout Europe.

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

• Work in conjunction with Sales to guide technical discussions, outline PoC evaluations, and provide product demonstrations.

• Assist customer engineering teams with simulation setup, intricate test cases, and interpretation of results.

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

• Identify customer pain points and workflow bottlenecks.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to convert customer feedback into product features.

• Represent Vinci at industry conferences and semiconductor events through presentations and live demonstrations.

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

• Evaluate thermal management systems, fluid flow dynamics, heat dissipation, steady-state and transient thermal behavior, thermal risk, component reliability, power density, and cooling efficiency.

⛳️ Requirements

• A degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.

• Over 15 years of hands-on experience in thermal management and cooling solutions.

• Expert-level proficiency with commercial simulation software such as Flotherm, Ansys Icepak/Fluent, Simcenter STAR-CCM+, 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++ for workflow automation or simulation data parsing.

• Demonstrated managerial or technical leadership experience.

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication abilities.

• Familiarity with structural mechanical simulations and/or Electrical Signal Integrity and Power Integrity workflows is a plus.

• Direct experience in the commercialization of technical software is advantageous.

• Prior experience in technical pre-sales, application engineering, or strategic technical sales is a benefit.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work flexibility.

• Moderate travel opportunities within continental Europe.

• Collaboration with elite engineers and researchers.

• Fast-paced startup environment.