Principal Thermal Solutions Engineer

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Collaborate with the sales team to steer technical discussions, outline proof-of-concept evaluations, and provide product demonstrations.

• Supervise simulation setups, conduct complex test cases, and analyze results to demonstrate technical and business value.

• Manage customer onboarding, deployment pipeline, account growth, training, and advanced troubleshooting.

• Identify customer challenges and workflow inefficiencies.

• Work with product and engineering teams to transform customer feedback into new product features.

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

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

• Analyze thermal management systems, fluid flow dynamics, heat dissipation, and both steady-state and transient thermal behavior.

• Assess thermal risks, component reliability, power density, and cooling efficiency.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Expert-level proficiency in commercial simulation software such as Flotherm, Ansys Icepak/Fluent, Simcenter STAR-CCM+, or similar tools.

• More than 15 years of practical experience in thermal management and cooling solutions.

• Extensive knowledge of semiconductor electronics packaging, advanced packaging technologies (e.g., 2.5D/3D IC), or foundry ecosystems.

• Experience in dedicated customer-facing roles.

• Practical programming skills in Python or C++ for automating workflows or analyzing simulation data.

• Demonstrated prior experience in managerial or technical leadership roles.

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication abilities.

• Professional fluency in Mandarin or Korean.

• Knowledge of structural mechanical simulations (FEA/stress) and/or Electrical Signal Integrity and Power Integrity (SI/PI) workflows.

• Direct experience in commercializing technical software, preferably EDA or CAE simulation tools, within major semiconductor and electronics companies.

• Previous experience in technical pre-sales, application engineering (FAE), or strategic technical sales roles.

• Capability to adopt and advocate for physics-based workflows and AI-assisted design or simulation tools.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work options available.

• Moderate travel, primarily within Asia.

• Collaborate with top-tier engineers and researchers.

• Dynamic startup atmosphere.

• Opportunity to work at the intersection of AI models, fundamental physics, and enterprise engineering.

• Chance to contribute to the redefinition of next-generation hardware design.