Lyten
Staff Cell Design Engineer
San Jose, CA · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$141k-$212kDetected 30 days ago
PythonData AnalysisMechanical DesignLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- Together, these innovations are making a massive global improvement and driving real-world impact across energy, mobility, construction, and defense.
- We're entering an exciting growth phase, scaling production across the U.S. and Europe and expanding our team of engineers, scientists, and innovators.
- We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer.
Responsibilities
- Perform design, optimization, and validation of high-energy pouch cells and prismatic cells
- Drive decision making in material selection, electrode design, stack configuration, N/P balancing and safety trade-offs.
- Analyze large multi-variant experiment datasets with advanced tools to derive design-performance correlations.
- Lead pouch/prismatic cell design and development projects from concept to production-ready products
- Drive design for manufacturability (DFM) and design for assembly (DFA) initiatives
- Collaborate with product + business teams to translate product requirements into battery performance targets and qualification plans.
- Join a team of talented, friendly, and down-to-earth innovators who support, challenge, and inspire one another every day.
Requirements
- Proven track record of transitioning battery products from R&D to pilot/mass production
- Strong expertise in data analysis tools (R, Python, JMP, Minitab)
- Proven experience performing cell data analytics, degradation modeling, and cycle/performance correlation.
- Employment in this position is conditioned on the continued availability of government authorization to authorize release of such items, to the extent required, including without limitation an export license, or other documentation required to establish authorization to receive access to such items.
Nice to have
- Work closely with manufacturing and automation teams to ensure scalability, yield, and transfer to pilot / production lines.
- Write technical reports, modeling insights, and decision frameworks for executive and customer visibility.
- Interface with cross-functional teams including Materials, Process, Quality, and Manufacturing
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across projects
- PhD or MSc in chemical engineering/Electrochemistry/chemistry/material science and engineering
- More than 3 years experiences in the battery manufacturing or related industry
- More than 8 years of practical experience from Li-ion and Li-S battery cell development
- Extensive experience with large-scale battery fabrication and validation
Skills
- Thrive in an environment that celebrates ingenuity, optimism, and meaningful progress - together.
Compensation
- This compensation and benefits information is based on Lyten's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.
- We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer.
- The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise.
- New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.
- In addition to base pay this position is eligible for tier based bonus and equity, healthcare, dental, vision, corporate discounts, paid holidays, PTO and sick time, 401K, employee relocation plan (if applicable)
- Company may delay commencement of employment, rescind an offer of employment, terminate employment, and/or may modify job responsibilities, compensation, benefits, and/or access to Company facilities and information systems, as Company deems appropriate, in order to ensure compliance with applicable government access control restrictions.
Benefits
- This compensation and benefits information is based on Lyten's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.
- In addition to base pay this position is eligible for tier based bonus and equity, healthcare, dental, vision, corporate discounts, paid holidays, PTO and sick time, 401K, employee relocation plan (if applicable)
- The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise.
Company info
- Experience a workplace built on trust, respect, and shared success - where collaboration fuels breakthroughs and everyone's ideas are heard.
- Be part of a fast-moving company entering a commercial growth phase, with opportunities to lead, learn, and make your mark.
Equal opportunity
- Lyten is an equal opportunity employer.
- EEO Employer/Vet/Disabled.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with a disability.
Visa & Work Authorization
- require compliance with export control laws and, as a result, all interviewed candidates will be screened pre-interview to determine their eligibility in light of export restrictions
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