United States onlyWho is Flock?
Flock Safety is an all-in-one technology solution to eliminate crime and keep communities safe. Our intelligent platform combines the power of communities at scale - including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies - to shape a safer future together. Our full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by communities across the country to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone.
Our holistic public safety platform is comprehensive and intelligent, providing the actionable evidence needed to solve, deter and reduce crime across neighborhoods, schools, businesses and entire cities. Without compromising transparency or privacy, we are turning unbiased data into objective answers.
Flock strives to offer a career-defining experience where you can also make an impact on your community. While safety is a serious business, we are a supportive team that is optimizing the remote experience to create strong and fulfilling relationships even when we are physically apart. Our group of hard-working employees thrive in a positive and inclusive environment, where a bias towards action is rewarded.
We have raised over $700M in venture capital from investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Bedrock Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital. Now surpassing a $7.5B valuation, Flock is scaling intentionally and seeking the best and brightest to help us meet our goal of reducing crime in the United States by 25% in the next three years.
The Opportunity
This position presents an opportunity for a Thermal Subject Matter Expert to assume a role with significant impact. We are developing advanced drone technology and are seeking a Senior Staff Thermal Engineer to play a key role in defining our product architecture. The incumbent will have a key role in influencing decisions across Mechanical, Electrical, and Performance domains. Their expertise will be vital to our initiatives aimed at advancing the drone market and providing tangible benefits to communities.
The Skillset
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
10+ years of experience in consumer electronics, Industrial IoT, or related industries, specializing in Mechanical/ID and thermal design optimization.
5+ years designing advanced thermal systems for integrated hardware products.
Deep expertise in thermal management design elements including TIM, spreaders, heat sinks, vapor chambers, heat pipes, and fans.
Proven experience designing both passive and active thermal management systems.
Skilled in thermal testing, including sensor selection, data acquisition, and post-processing.
Expert in creating FEA-CFD models and conducting full thermal system simulations and analyses.
Proficient with thermal simulation tools such as ANSYS-Icepak, Flotherm, and similar.
Familiar with designing for industry-leading, ARM-based processor systems (e.g., Qualcomm, Ambarella, Nvidia).
Adept at designing and executing thermal tests in a lab environment, with hands-on experience in airflow and temperature measurement.
Proficiency in 3D CAD tools (SolidWorks, Creo)
Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical content effectively, both written and verbally.
Feeling uneasy that you haven’t ticked every box? That’s okay; we’ve felt that way too. Studies have shown women and minorities are less likely to apply unless they meet all qualifications. We encourage you to break the status quo and apply to roles that would make you excited to come to work every day.
90 Days at Flock
We are a results-oriented culture and believe job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe 90 day plans and believe that good days lead to good weeks, which lead to good months. This serves as a preview of the 90 day plan you will receive if you were to be hired in this role at Flock Safety.
The First 30 Days
Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams and external partners to establish and meet design requirements and decisions, particularly those related to the thermal performance of product designs.
Develop a deep understanding of product architectures, vendor capabilities, operational contexts, and performance objectives.
Evaluate and optimize designs for thermal performance throughout the product lifecycle.
Establish and maintain the necessary tools and software for comprehensive thermal analysis and simulations.
Execute thermal validation and characterization tests, presenting findings to stakeholders and proposing hardware/software mitigation strategies for existing designs as needed.
The First 60 Days
Provide guidance and direction to design teams to ensure optimized thermal design envelopes to meet all required operational specs.
Conduct thorough analysis and testing to validate design choices and make necessary improvements.
Propose innovative optimizations across products, thermally modeling small form factor computing devices with a wide variety of heat sources: chipsets, memory/storage devices, batteries/chargers, RF transceivers, LEDs, and sensors
90 Days & Beyond
Conduct thermal design reviews, and perform thermal simulations utilizing CFD tools, from prototype to release to Mass Production.
Create FEA-CFD models for mechanical systems, perform static, dynamic, and thermal-mechanical analyses in multi-physics environments.
Guide the development of custom SW solutions, as required, for thermal management and mitigation
Develop, standardize, and document a test plan for design efforts in order to validate and characterize physical designs.
In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary between $168,000 - $231,000, as well as Flock Safety Stock Options.
The Perks
🌴Flexible PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays.
⚕️Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match.
👪Family Leave: All employees receive 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave. Birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time.
🍼Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. In 2025, Flock will provide a $ 50,000-lifetime maximum benefit related to eligible adoption, surrogacy, or fertility expenses.
💖Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support
💸Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions.
💚ERGs: We want all employees to thrive and feel like they belong at Flock. We offer three ERGs today - Women of Flock, Flock Proud, and Melanin Motion. If you are interested in talking to a representative from one of these, please let your recruiter know.
💻WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.
📚Productivity Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more.
🏠Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office.
Flock is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diverse backgrounds and thoughts and welcome everyone to apply for employment with us. We are committed to fostering an environment that is inclusive, transparent, and collaborative. Mutual respect is central to how Flock operates, and we believe the best solutions come from diverse perspectives, experiences, and skills. We embrace our differences and know that we are stronger working together.
If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [email protected]. This information will be treated as confidential and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.
At Flock Safety, we compensate our employees fairly for their work. Base salary is determined by job-related experience, education/training, as well as market indicators. The range above is representative of base salary only and does not include equity, sales bonus plans (when applicable) and benefits. This range may be modified in the future. This job posting may span more than one career level.
