Thesis Work: AM inspired heat sink design

11 hours ago

Thitani location Kitui County, Kenya myGwork - LGBTQ+ Business Community Full time 550,000 - 750,000 per year

This job is with ABB, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.
At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we'll give you what you need to make it happen. It won't always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you'll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

This Position Reports To
R&D Team Lead

Details

  • Period: February – July 2026
  • Number of credits: 30 ECTS
  • Number of students for this thesis work: 2
  • Location: Västerås and, possibly, also the university premises

Your Role And Responsibilities
You will be part of Materials Technology & Energy Storage team at ABB Corporate Research in Västerås, Sweden. At Corporate Research we lead the innovation within ABB and our task is to ensure ABB's technology competitiveness now and in the future. We work in close collaboration with other research centers, our business areas: Motion, Process Automation, Robotics & Discrete Automation and Electrification, as well academic and industrial partners. In our creative and highly skilled team we develop, design, build and test new concepts and prototypes of physical and digital powertrains or electrical devices.

Metal additive manufacturing offers tremendous design freedom to creatively solve existing performance issues. One area is the passive cooling of electrical and electronic cabinets which traditionally use fan cooling or extruded aluminium profiles. The aim of this project is to design a heat sink for a given boundary condition and demonstrate that it can be manufactured using metal additive manufacturing. The work includes design, FE simulation, additive manufacturing, testing and reporting. The scope of the work will be tuned based on the technical background of the student.

Qualifications For The Role

  • Technical background in thermal analysis, material science, chemistry, physics or similar
  • Understanding of additive manufacturing concepts
  • Thermal simulations
  • Coding skills are a plus but not mandatory, please comment in the cover letter
  • Proficiency in spoken and written English is mandatory
  • A strong team spirit and individual leadership are essential to deliver expected results on time and with high quality

More About Us
ABB is a global technology leader in electrification and automation. We see our purpose as being to enable a more sustainable and resource-efficient future. By connecting our engineering and digitalization expertise, we help industries run at high performance, while becoming more efficient, productive and sustainable so they outperform. We call this: 'Engineered to Outrun.'

Recruiting Manager David Lindell, , will answer your questions.

Positions are filled continuously. Please apply with your CV, academic transcripts, and a cover letter in English. We look forward to receiving your application

Join us. Be part of the team where progress happens, industries transform, and your work shapes the world. Run What Runs the World.

A Future Opportunity

Please note that this position is part of our talent pipeline and not an active job opening at this time. By applying, you express your interest in future career opportunities with ABB.

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