Sila
Senior Electrode Engineer
Alameda, CA · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 15 hours ago
PythonData AnalysisExperimental DesignCommunicationProblem Solving
About the role
- We engineer and manufacture ground-breaking battery materials that significantly increase the energy density of batteries, while reducing their size and weight.
- Smaller more powerful batteries that can unlock innovation in consumer devices and accelerate the mass adoption of electric cars to eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels.
- We're tackling one of the biggest challenges of our time every day, and together we're redefining what's possible.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, qualification, and scale up of novel electrode and participate and develop skills of cell prototyping and testing capabilities
- Apply advanced data analysis, statistical methods, and modeling techniques to interpret test results, predict performance, and inform design iterations
- Effectively communicate ideas, plans, and results to internal stakeholders, and occasionally to external partners
- Identify safety hazards and work cooperatively to implement improvements
- Well-organized and data-driven approach to problem solving and experimental design, driven by curiosity and attention to detail
- Ability to carefully plan and implement multiple projects simultaneously
Requirements
- You know how to be a thoughtful, supportive team member, and are ready to both give and receive feedback with humility.
- Knowledge and Skill Requirements
- Proficiency in using databases, and data analysis tools such as JMP, Python, etc.
Nice to have
- Strong technical background, experience with lithium-ion batteries including different process steps (slurry, coating, cell design and cell tear down) is required
- direct experience in slurry & coating formulation / process and their characterizations is a strong plus
- Japanese or Korean language fluency is a plus
Compensation
- The starting base pay for this role is between $128,000 and $162,000 at the time of posting.
Benefits
- Accelerate learning cycles by developing new techniques or test methods to detect downstream challenges early in the development
Company info
- We are Sila, a next-generation battery materials company. Our mission is to power the world's transition to clean energy. To create this future, our team is building a better lithium-ion battery from the inside out today. We engineer and manufacture ground-breaking battery materials that significantly increase the energy density of batteries, while reducing their size and weight. The result? Smaller more powerful batteries that can unlock innovation in consumer devices and accelerate the mass adoption of electric cars to eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels. We're tackling one of the biggest challenges of our time every day, and together we're redefining what's possible. Are you ready to be a part of a team committed to changing the world?
- Who You Are
- You're an engineer excited to perform R&D structure-property relationships at the electrode level and scale R&D electrodes into prototype and production lines. You enjoy using design thinking to put creative solutions into practice and are driven to quickly test out and iterate concepts. You know how to be a thoughtful, supportive team member, and are ready to both give and receive feedback with humility. As part of a collaborative effort, your work will help to elucidate the underlying structure-property relationships of anode component materials and their impact on electrochemical performance, and scale the electrodes for commercially-built lithium-ion batteries.
- and Duties
- We are Sila, a next-generation battery materials company.
- Our mission is to power the world's transition to clean energy.
- To create this future, our team is building a better lithium-ion battery from the inside out today.
- Are you ready to be a part of a team committed to changing the world?
- Investigate the roles of active materials, binder, and conductive additives on the performance of Li-ion batteries
- Discover, understand and explain the fundamentals involved in the relationships between electrode components and cell performance
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