Principal Thermal Solutions Engineer

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Work closely with Sales to facilitate technical discussions, outline proof-of-concept evaluations, and execute product demonstrations.

• Assist customer engineering teams with simulation setups, complex test scenarios, and analysis of results.

• Showcase Vinci's technical and business value to potential enterprise clients.

• Oversee customer onboarding, deployment processes, account growth, training, and advanced troubleshooting.

• Identify customer challenges and workflow inefficiencies.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to transform field feedback into new product functionalities.

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

• Stay updated on competitive technologies, industry trends, and market positioning.

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

• Assist customers in assessing thermal risk, component reliability, power density, and cooling efficiency.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

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

• Extensive knowledge of semiconductor electronics packaging and advanced packaging technologies, including 2.5D/3D IC or foundry ecosystems.

• Previous experience in dedicated customer-facing roles.

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

• Demonstrated managerial or technical leadership experience.

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication abilities.

• Professional fluency in Mandarin or Korean.

• Familiarity with 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.

• Prior involvement in technical pre-sales, application engineering (FAE), or strategic technical sales settings.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible remote work arrangement.

• Moderate travel primarily within Asia.

• Occasional intercontinental travel for collaboration with the US team.

• Opportunity to collaborate with world-class engineers and researchers.

• Dynamic and fast-paced startup environment.

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

• Opportunity to contribute to the evolution of next-generation hardware design.