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 drive field execution.

• Collaborate with Sales to facilitate technical discussions, define proof-of-concept evaluations, and present product demonstrations.

• Assist customer engineering teams with simulation setup, complex test scenarios, and the interpretation of results.

• Demonstrate Vinci’s technical and business value through customer evaluations.

• Oversee customer onboarding, the deployment pipeline, and account growth.

• Offer senior technical guidance, structured training, and advanced troubleshooting support.

• Identify customer pain points and workflow inefficiencies.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to translate field feedback into product features.

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• Over 15 years of hands-on experience in thermal management and cooling solutions, either as a simulation practitioner or a technical account manager for commercial physics simulation software.

• Strong familiarity with semiconductor electronics packaging and advanced packaging technologies (e.g., 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 parsing simulation data.

• Demonstrated managerial or technical leadership experience.

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

• Familiarity with structural mechanical simulations (FEA/stress) and/or Electrical Signal Integrity and Power Integrity (SI/PI) workflows (preferred).

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

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

• Capability to adopt and promote physics-based workflows and AI-assisted design or simulation tools (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Moderate travel opportunities, primarily across continental Europe.

• Collaboration with top-tier engineers and researchers.

• Dynamic startup environment.

• Chance to work at the intersection of AI models, fundamental physics, and enterprise hardware design.