Scientist/Senior Scientist, Advanced Packaging, Ime

Job Description About the Role A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics (IME) is seeking a highly motivated Scientist / Senior Scientist to conduct R&D in thermal management, heat dissipation, and advanced cooling technologies for next-generation semiconductor packaging. The successful candidate will develop innovative thermal solutions for heterogeneous integration, AI/HPC packages, chiplets, 2.5D/3D integration, power electronics, and photonics applications. This role involves adopting advanced thermal/cooling concepts into package technologies through close collaboration with multidisciplinary teams in materials, packaging integration, reliability, simulation, and industry partners. He/she focuses on practical execution of thermal R&D activities, including simulation, testing, data analysis, prototype evaluation, and implementation of innovative thermal solutions for next-generation packages such as AI/HPC, chiplet, 2.5D/3D integration, photonics, and power electronics. Key Responsibilities 1. Thermal Project Execution: To execute thermal engineering tasks for grant and/or customer-funded R&D projects. To Support project deliverables, timelines, experiments, and reporting. To Perform package thermal assessments and identify hotspot / cooling issues. To Generate technical data, reports, and presentation materials. 2. Thermal Simulation & Analysis: To conduct thermal modelling using tools such as ANSYS Icepak, ANSYS Fluent COMSOL Multiphysics and SIEMENS Flotherm. To perform steady-state and transient thermal simulations, junction temperature prediction and thermal resistance extraction, and thermal design optimization 3. New Cooling Technology Development: To support development and validation of new cooling concepts, including microchannel cooling, vapor chamber integration, immersion cooling and high-performance TIMs. To build prototypes and conduct proof-of-concept testing. 4. Thermal Characterization & Lab Work: To perform laboratory thermal measurements with I…