Thermal Engineer

Job Description
The pandemic has highlighted how important telecom networks are to society. Nokia's Network Infrastructure group is at the heart of a revolution to bring more and faster network capacity to people worldwide through our ambition, innovation, and technical expertise.

The Subsystems team develops leading edge optical transmission modules for access, metro and long-haul customer application. It consists of a variety of talents in the area of hardware and firmware development.

As part of our team you will be contributing to all fields of thermal and thermo-mechanical aspects within the whole product life cycle. This consists of finding concepts, making feasibility studies, optimizing mechanical designs and many more. Your focus will be modelling, simulation & validation. The goal is to find state-of-the art thermal solutions for our Subsystems modules to ensure functionality and reliability of our products at the end customers.

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How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn

• Works as a thermal engineer within the motivated Electro Optics Module Design team
• Uses state-of-the-art thermal and thermo-mechanical simulation tools
• Is focusing on modeling and validation of the thermal and thermo-mechanical behavior of our products to ensure excellent functionality and reliability of the products at the end customer
• Contributes to the whole product life cycle including modeling, conceptional studies, design, validation, transfer to manufacturing and monitoring fabrication results
• Collaborates very closely with all internal (local and worldwide) teams contributing to the design of new products like HW Design Team and Systems Architecture Team and many others
• Analyses, designs, develops and tests products as per customers' requirements.
• Communicates to outside vendors (worldwide) to always find better thermal solutions and better match between modeling/simulation and reality
• Applies high quality standards and participates in process and tools evolutions and improvements.

Key Skills And Experience
A hand-on attitude, paired with ability and the will to work autonomously on specific topics is highly appreciated. Our team is globally distributed and multi-disciplinary, so you can learn and grow in different areas. We are in constant contact with our suppliers to discuss needed components and technologies.

• Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering or Physics or similar
• Experience in thermal design & stress analysis simulation
• Knowledge in state-of-the-art simulation tools used for thermal analysis & stress analysis
• Good technical background in optical telecommunications
• Analytical mindset solving problems
• Eager to learn and increase knowledge in a rapidly changing area of optical technologies and products
• Very good social competencies and communication skills to work with colleagues from different teams and countries as well as external partner companies
• Capability to work independently and self-organized
• Flexibility and capability to cope with pressure
• Fluent German (nice-to-have) and English (must-have) in written and verbal form