Gotion, Inc.
Senior or Staff Battery Cell Engineer
Irvine, California · Staff+
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About the role
- We innovate in the next generation electric vehicle and energy storage technologies (lithium batteries and related systems) with the aim to accelerate electrified transportation and achieve sustainable development.
- Gotion is powered by a leading power battery technology company that provides solutions for vehicles including the world's first mass commercial e-bus route.
- Everyone is highly valued and plays a vital role in the growth of our organization.
Responsibilities
- Translate customer vehicle-, pack-, and system-level requirements into cell-level design requirements, targets, and engineering trade-offs.
- Build a deep understanding of customer applications, duty cycles, operating environments, and pack constraints to guide optimal cell and pack integration.
- Develop cell design solutions that balance energy density, power capability, safety, durability, cost, and manufacturing feasibility.
- Develop test methods and validation strategies to evaluate cell-level and cell-in-pack performance, safety, reliability, and durability.
- Analyze and interpret cell test data to assess design performance, identify technical risks, and recommend design improvements.
- Lead root-cause investigations and corrective actions for cell design, performance, safety, and manufacturing issues
- Provide technical leadership throughout the complete cell development lifecycle, including concept development, design optimization, design verification, manufacturing scale-up, launch, and post-launch improvement.
- Support customer-facing quality and industrialization activities, including APQP, PPAP, design reviews, process reviews, and technical audits.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with OEM cell, battery pack, vehicle integration, safety, validation, manufacturing, and quality teams.
- Collaborate across R&D, manufacturing, quality, and intellectual-property teams to advance cell designs, application solutions, and proprietary technologies.
Requirements
- Master's degree in chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, electrochemistry, or a related technical discipline.
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Company info
- Gotion is a career destination - we are not simply attempting to just fill another job, but to pursue a dream of global green energy together!
- We offer outstanding opportunities to individuals seeking an exciting and challenging working environment.
- Serve as the lead technical interface for U.S. OEM customers on battery cell design, development, validation, and industrialization.
- Represent Gotion's cell design and manufacturing capabilities, technology roadmap, product portfolio, and development maturity to OEM customers.
- Lead technical alignment with customers on cell requirements, design specifications, interface definitions, validation plans, and acceptance criteria.
- Lead cell design reviews, technical workshops, and engineering discussions with customers and internal teams from RFI/RFQ through development, launch, and mass production.
- clearly communicate findings and recommendations to customers.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to develop DFMEAs and PFMEAs, identify critical design and process characteristics, and coordinate FMEA reviews with customers.
- Lead root-cause investigations and corrective actions for cell design, performance, safety, and manufacturing issues; clearly communicate findings and recommendations to customers.
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