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Senior Thermal Mechanical Photonic Designer

NvidiaUS, CA, Santa ClaraPhotonics & RF
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First seen on this site 2026-10-31, open 10 days.
Posted 2026-10-30 · read from workday

We are now looking for a Senior Thermal Mechanical Photonic Designer. We are part of the global circuits team at NVIDIA that craft the state-of-the-art GPUs for all applications such as supercomputers, gaming consoles and self-driving cars. Come join us in our mission to Engineer the next generation of outstanding products. Teams are dedicated to the architecture and design of CMOS and Silicon-Photonics high-speed chip interfaces (NVLink, IEEE, PCIE, USB, OIF) and other sophisticated photonic functions. Strong hands-on lab experience with silicon evaluation, debugging, characterization, and bring up. What you will be doing: Work on Thermal and Structural design of Silicon Photonic designs Run stress simulation in optical components and fiber alignment and propose improved design of optical components. Set up experimental methodology for thermal validation and laser performance under different stress conditions. Modeling Si die-package thermo-mechanical interactions Solder joint fatigue and creep modeling Support the optical engineering and system engineering leads with the opto-mechanical system design. Die-package thermo-mechanical interactions in electronic packages for predicting failures during various assembly and reliability tests to recommend design, process or material changes. Hygroscopic stresses in electronic packages due to moisture diffusion. Crack propagation and interfacial delamination.