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title: Senior Thermal Engineer at Uber in Sunnyvale, CA
description: Uber is hiring for the Senior Thermal Engineer role in Sunnyvale, CA. Pays $180K–$200K
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| **Company** | Uber |
| **Location** | Sunnyvale, CA |
| **Salary** | $180K/yr - $200K/yr |
| **Type** | Full Time |
| **Posted** | Sep 26, 2026 |
## Description

#### **About the Role**

Uber is launching AV Labs to accelerate the autonomous technology ecosystem. We're building out a high-velocity team of multi-disciplinary experts to turn real-world operations into high-quality data for our autonomous partners. This team is focused on the hardest problem in AV today: unlocking real-world, long-tail driving data. Autonomy is now a data race—and Uber has an edge: We collect rare, real-world driving data at a scale and capital efficiency no one else can match.

As a Senior Thermal Engineer at Uber AV Labs, you will own thermal design, validation, and troubleshooting for autonomous vehicle hardware. This is a highly hands-on role working directly with sensors, compute systems, vehicle hardware, and environmental systems from prototype through production.

## **Core** **Responsibilities**

- Own end to end thermal design and validation for vehicle hardware, including compute units, power electronics and sensor systems
- Design practical thermal solutions using liquid cooling, conduction, convection, heat sinks, fans/blowers, heaters, insulation, and thermal interface materials.
- Design and develop liquid cooling systems, including coolant loops, cold plates, pumps, heat exchangers/radiators, reservoirs, valves, hoses, and vehicle integration.
- Build and instrument prototypes; perform bench, thermal chamber, and vehicle testing across hot/cold environmental conditions.
- Perform thermal and fluid calculations to size cooling components and evaluate system performance.
- Use thermal/CFD simulation where appropriate and correlate models against physical test data.
- Troubleshoot thermal and cooling-system issues directly on vehicles and hardware, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions.
- Work closely with mechanical, electrical, sensor, compute, vehicle integration, and operation teams.
- Drive designs from early prototype through validation builds and release in production.

## **Basic Qualifications**

- BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- 5+ years of thermal engineering experience, preferably in automotive, autonomous vehicles, robotics, aerospace, or high-power electronics.
- Strong hands-on experience designing, building, and validating cooling systems. Demonstrated experience with liquid cooling.
- Strong hands-on experience building, instrumenting, and testing thermal systems.
- Strong understanding of heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and electronics thermal management.
- Experience with environmental chambers and vehicle-level hot/cold testing.
- Experience with CAD (Solidworks, NX, Catia or equivalent) and mechanical design
- Comfortable working directly with prototype hardware, test equipment, and vehicles.
- Demonstrated ability to take an ambiguous thermal problem from measurement → root cause → design → validation.

## **Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience with thermal/CFD tools
- Automotive coolant-loop or vehicle thermal-management experience.
- Familiarity with automotive validation, reliability testing, and production design processes.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $180,000 per year - USD $200,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.
## Skills

- Instrumentation Equipment
- Test Data Management
- SolidWorks
- Mechanical Design
- Robotics
- Heat Exchangers
- Thermal Engineering
- Siemens NX
- Production Design
- Root Cause Analysis
- Vehicle Integration
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (Cfd)
- Thermal Management
- Pumps
- Sensor Systems
- Power Electronics
- Test Equipment
- Environmental Chambers
- Cooling Systems
- Computer-Aided Design
- Corrective And Preventive Action (Capa)
- Manufacturing Plant Equipment
- Thermal Control Systems
- Insulation Installation
- Thermal Design
- Liquid Cooling
- Heat Transfer
- Reliability Testing
## Benefits

- 401(k) Plans

## How to Apply

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