BATTERY SYSTEMS ENGINEERRESPONSABILITIES AND ACTIVITIES :
Battery Systems:
- Responsible for performing battery pack design; emphasis on architectural and electrical aspects
- Develops test procedures and cell cycling equipment for performing electrical product and component evaluations (both internally and in labs)
- Perform technical risk and performance analysis and simulation
- Maintain time records and project reports as required
- Participate in process improvement
Collaboration:
- Collaborates with customer and development team to analyze and document requirements
- Collaborate with other engineers on the global team as needed or required
- Perform 5S duties at the end of the day/week
Support:
- Provide technical guidance to all engineering disciplines through all phases of the APQP development process
- Support customer integration and validation of battery pack, onsite when required
- Support program management in post-sourcing reviews of hardware, software and systems
Legal Compliance:
- This role operates under TISAX confidentiality level [Level 2], requiring appropriate handling of sensitive information
- Ensure legal compliance with state, federal and OSHA requirements
- Ensure ISO procedures are followed
- Maintain compliance with all company policies, work instructions and procedures
PROFILE :
Personal Background
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Chemical Engineering, Applied Physics, Materials Science or related engineering field
- Required: Minimum of 8+ years of experience in engineering, ideally in the battery or automotive industry with hybrid and/or electric vehicles
- Preferred: 4 years' experience in battery pack development
Job Technical Skills
- Strong knowledge of DFMEA process
- Experience with schematic software
- Experience with design verification
- Ability to review customer requirements and develop gap analysis to establish variant lists
- Background in mechanical engineering or electrical engineering and battery systems is a big plus
- Familiarity with automotive quality systems (IATF/ISO standards)
- Knowledge of quality, safety and manufacturability of battery packs
- Experience with high voltage and high capacity lithium ion battery systems: LTO and NMC preferred
- Experience specifying and setting up tests with cyclers and other diagnostic equipment
- Experience with BMS software control algorithms and hardware design preferred
- Experience with power electronics preferred
- Demonstrable experience with tools and test equipment (e.g., oscilloscopes, meters, diagnostics/analysis software) to perform standardized certification testing
Job Soft Skills
- Independent and proactive problem solver
- Comfortable working in a cross-functional, international team environment
- Stay focused on the quality of every deliverable by ensuring consistency and adherence to high standards, as well as paying close attention to even the minutest details involved
- Ability to possess higher-order thinking skills that enable one to see both sides of the coin. Provide solutions by creating and implementing new methodologies
- Balance listening and talking, speaking and writing clearly and accurately, influencing others, keeping others informed
- Taking ownership of our work, doing what is needed without being asked, following through
- Planning ahead, managing time well, being on time, being cost conscious, thinking of better ways to do things
Work Environment
- Team of 5 locally plus strong support from a 40-person European team (Poland, France, Germany)
- Travel: Once per month (e.g., to Indiana - 3 hour drive)
Date: May 8, 2026
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