Mechanical FEA Engineer

New Position: Mechanical FEA Engineer

Location: Fremont, CA

Contract

Position Summary:

Mechanical FEA Engineer supporting a hardware accelerator module mechanical team.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform static structural FEA for stiffener design iterations covering rib layout, thickness, geometry, mounting locations and materials.

• Evaluate mounting-pressure, gravity-sag and handling load cases.

• Perform random vibration, sine sweep and shock analyses for transport and operational requirements.

• Verify modal separation and assess fatigue and yield risk.

• Conduct staged warpage simulation for bare PCB, populated components and full PCBA at room and high temperature.

• Flag SMT risk using package warpage contours.

• Deliver analysis plans, meshed models, result fields, warpage contours and pass/fail reports against client acceptance criteria.

• Correlate simulations with shadow-moiré, shaker and drop test data.

Experience and Skills Required

• 5+ years of structural FEA experience in electronics, PCBA or semiconductor packaging.

• Hands-on Ansys and/or Altair/HyperMesh experience; final toolchain is to be confirmed.

• PCB/PCBA warpage simulation experience including CTE mismatch and reflow/assembly effects at room and high temperature.

• Shock, vibration and drop analysis with modal and fatigue assessment.

• Demonstrated test correlation between models and measured results, including model refinement.

• Ability to execute defined load cases and report clearly against acceptance criteria.