Senior Principal Thermal Engineer

Senior Principal Thermal Engineer    This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office. Who We Are: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE. Job Description: HPE is seeking a Senior Principal Thermal Engineer who is a recognized authority in advanced thermal management technologies for high-performance networking, AI, compute, and data-center hardware. This role will define and drive the future thermal technology vision, architectures, methodologies, and innovation roadmaps spanning advanced air cooling, liquid cooling, hybrid cooling, and emerging thermal solutions. The engineer will identify, evaluate, and mature next-generation cooling technologies, guide long-term platform strategies, influence industry direction, and solve critical business and customer challenges. Through deep technical leadership and innovation, this individual will deliver substantial, long-lasting impact in performance, reliability, energy efficiency, sustainability, cost optimization, and product differentiation. The successful candidate will influence executive and cross-functional decisions, shape technology investments, collaborate with industry partners and suppliers, contribute to standards development, mentor engineers, and strengthen HPE's technical community. Detailed Job Description   Responsibilities • Define and drive the long-term thermal technology vision, strategy, and roadmap for HPE Networking products spanning advanced air cooling, liquid cooling, hybrid cooling, and emerging thermal management technologies. • Identify, evaluate, mature, and recommend next-generation cooling technologies required to support future AI, networking, high-performance compute, and data-center platforms. • Establish organization-wide thermal architectures, design methodologies, technology standards, modeling practices, and validation frameworks used across multiple business units and product generations. • Serve as the senior technical authority and thought leader for advanced thermal management technologies, including high-performance heat sinks, vapor chambers, heat pipes, fan and airflow systems, cold plates, manifold architectures, immersion cooling, coolant distribution systems, facility water integration, and emerging two-phase cooling solutions. • Lead early-stage technology investigations, proof-of-concept development, feasibility studies, competitive benchmarking, and technology readiness assessments to enable future product roadmaps. • Evaluate thermal implications of future silicon, optics, packaging, power delivery, rack-scale architectures, and AI infrastructure trends; develop cooling strategies that enable next-generation performance requirements. • Define technical requirements and assessment criteria for new cooling technologies, including thermal performance, airflow management, coolant flow distribution, reliability, energy efficiency, sustainability, serviceability, manufacturability, acoustic performance, and total cost of ownership. • Review critical product architectures and provide expert guidance on thermal design tradeoffs, ri