Pivotal Systems

Pivotal Systems

Battery Test Engineer

Palo Alto, CA

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About the role

  • Pivotal is the leader in the emerging market of electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
  • Last year we announced our next-generation aircraft, the Helix, which is rapidly progressing toward general release and scalable production in 2026.
  • Mobility is one of the most highly-valued areas of modern technology investments.

Responsibilities

  • Own test planning and hands-on execution for lithium-ion cells and aircraft battery packs.
  • Operate high-power battery cyclers, cell cyclers, and environmental chambers, and maintain test profiles, data pipelines, and test-article configuration records.
  • Deliver correlation-ready datasets to the simulation team and support model-versus-test comparison.
  • Design, build, and execute thermal-runaway initiation, propagation, containment, venting, and mitigation tests, including fabrication of test articles, trigger method s, fixtures, and instrumentation appropriate to test objectives.
  • Develop environmental and durability tests covering temperature, thermal cycling, altitude or low-pressure exposure, humidity, vibration, mechanical shock, and transportation conditions as applicable.
  • Lead test readiness reviews, job-hazard analyses, emergency planning, exclusion-zone definition, and coordination with EHS, facilities, fire-safety, and external laboratories.
  • Author clear test plans, procedures, reports, nonconformance records, root-cause assessments, and design recommendations.
  • Support model correlation and work with design engineers to improve containment, cooling, sensing, venting, and protection strategies.
  • Manage external test laboratories, including statement-of-work development, setup reviews, witnessing, data acceptance, and issue resolution.
  • Maintain calibrated instrumentation, safe lab practices, test configuration control, data traceability, and lessons learned.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical field.
  • Experience designing instrumented tests and selecting thermocouples, voltage and current measurement, pressure sensing, thermal imaging, and data-acquisition hardware.
  • Working knowledge of lithium-ion battery hazards, high-voltage safety, stored-energy hazards, fire risk, and safe test operations.
  • Ability to troubleshoot hardware, instrumentation, wiring, communications, and data-quality issues in the laboratory.
  • If you are ready for adventure, we invite you to join our amazing team and grow with us.
  • Three or more years of hands-on battery, environmental, abuse, reliability, or aerospace hardware testing experience.
  • Experience developing test fixtures, procedures, hazard controls, and technical reports.
  • Ability to work on-site and safely support physically hands-on test setup and execution.

Nice to have

  • Experience conducting or witnessing battery thermal-runaway, propagation, overcharge, external heating, short-circuit, crush, or penetration testing.
  • Experience with environmental chambers, vibration systems, thermal cycling, altitude chambers, shock testing, and high-power battery pack cyclers ( e.g., Chroma, etc. ) or cell cyclers ( e.g., Biologic, Arbin).
  • Experience with electric aircraft, EV, UAV, aerospace, defense, or other safety-critical energy systems.
  • Familiarity with UN 38.3 and relevant battery or aerospace environmental-test standards, with the judgment to confirm applicability before defining a compliance plan.
  • Experience with LabVIEW, Python, MATLAB, Dewesoft, NI hardware, or comparable data-acquisition and analysis environments.
  • Experience managing outside laboratories and reviewing supplier test evidence.
  • Has a strong laboratory and test-floor mindset and takes personal ownership of safe execution and high-quality data.
  • Balances urgency with disciplined readiness reviews, hazard controls, and configuration management.

Company info

  • Our distinctive tilt-aircraft architecture and scalable platform have been flying for over 10 years.
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