Engineer - Flow & Thermal

Overview

Engineer in the Modeling & Simulation Center of Excellence for ES Americas, supporting thermal and CFD analysis of electrical products including switchgear, busway, switches, UPS systems and circuit protection devices.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with product engineering and global stakeholders to translate design questions into flow and thermal analysis requirements.
• Perform CFD and thermal analyses for switchgear, busway, switches, UPS systems, circuit protection devices, and associated components and assemblies.
• Prepare geometry, generate computational meshes, define material properties, heat loads, boundary conditions, contacts, and appropriate solution controls.
• Evaluate natural and forced convection, conduction, radiation, conjugate heat transfer, pressure drop, airflow distribution, temperature rise, and electronics cooling as applicable.
• Review model assumptions and perform engineering checks to confirm that simulation results are physically reasonable and suitable for design decisions.
• Interpret and summarize analysis results, identify thermal risks, and provide technically sound design recommendations to local and global teams.
• Develop verification and validation plans, correlate simulation predictions with test data, document gaps, and improve model fidelity.
• Create clear technical reports and presentations documenting inputs, assumptions, methods, results, conclusions, limitations, and recommendations.
• Support parametric studies, design optimization, and sensitivity assessments to improve product performance, reliability, cost, and development cycle time.
• Contribute to reusable simulation templates, best practices, automation scripts, and standard work.
• Participate in technical reviews and proactively communicate progress, dependencies, technical risks, and schedule risks.
• Follow applicable Eaton engineering practices, quality requirements, data-management expectations, and project-management processes.

What you'll need

• Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Thermal Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Applied Mechanics, Energy Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• 0-2 years of relevant academic, research, or industry experience in engineering analysis, simulation.
• Strong fundamentals in heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics.
• Understanding of CFD and thermal-analysis workflows, including geometry preparation, meshing, boundary conditions, solver setup, convergence assessment, post-processing, and result interpretation.

Nice to have

• Exposure to ANSYS Fluent, ANSYS Icepak, or equivalent CAE tools.
• Exposure to natural and forced convection, conjugate heat transfer, radiation, electronics cooling, and thermal management of electrical equipment.
• Basic scripting or automation experience using Python, MATLAB, VBA, or tool-specific scripting interfaces.
• Learning agility and curiosity to understand new engineering domains, tools, and methods.
• Structured problem-solving with attention to accuracy, quality, and detail.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical work and present results.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in multidisciplinary, multicultural, and geographically distributed teams.
• Ownership of assigned work, with proactive communication of progress, dependencies, and risks.
• Effective planning and prioritization to deliver agreed outcomes within project timelines.