Thermal Design Engineer

The role

You will own the thermal architecture and analysis for industrial robots. This includes designing cooling solutions for actuators, end effectors, and on-board compute from concept through volume production.

What you will do

• Own thermal design and analysis across the robot including arms, end effectors, and on-board compute.
• Develop thermal architectures for high-torque-density actuators.
• Design cooling solutions for end effectors within volume, mass, and cable-routing constraints.
• Develop thermal management for on-board compute including airflow, heat sinks, heat pipes, vapor chambers, TIMs, and active cooling.
• Build thermal models and validate them with hands-on testing.
• Specify and select thermal components and own supplier relationships.
• Define thermal limits, derating curves, and protection logic.
• Contribute to DFM/DFA for scaling from prototypes to high-volume production.
• Develop accelerated test plans to validate thermal performance.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience (or equivalent "hard tech" projects) designing and validating thermal solutions for complex electromechanical systems.
• Strong fundamentals in conduction, convection, and radiation.
• Working knowledge of two-phase cooling and heat-pipe / vapor-chamber design.
• Hands-on experience with CFD tools (Ansys Icepak, Flotherm, SolidWorks Flow Simulation, or similar) and thermal FEA.
• Track record solving thermal problems in high-torque-density motors / actuators, dense power electronics, or compute (CPU / GPU / custom accelerator).
• Comfortable instrumenting, testing, and debugging thermal performance on real hardware.
• Experience designing for volume processes (extrusion, die casting, brazing, stamping) and working with thermal component suppliers and contract manufacturers.
• High proficiency in SolidWorks, Catia, or similar CAD tools.
• Hands-on problem-solving approach with the ability to iterate quickly.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an "engineering curiosity".

Nice to have

• Experience in robotics, prosthetics, EV powertrains, drones, or other dense electromechanical systems.
• Familiarity with motor / actuator thermal modeling (winding hot-spot estimation, lumped-parameter networks).
• Experience with liquid cooling or hybrid air / liquid systems.
• PhD or research experience in thermal sciences.

About the company

Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor.