Cell Development Engineer: From Lab to Scale-Up

UK Battery Industrialisation Centre; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

UK Battery Industrialisation Centre is seeking a Cell Development Engineer to advance lithium-ion cell development, testing, and industrialisation across formats. You will work with product, process, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams to ensure technical feasibility and manufacturability for customer and internal programmes.

Key responsibilities include designing test plans, analysing performance data, and contributing to robust development routes.

Qualifications

• Degree or Masters degree in Electrochemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Industrial or applied research experience in lithium-ion battery cell development, testing, materials evaluation, or manufacturing process development.
• Practical understanding of lithium-ion cell components, including cathode, anode, separator, electrolyte, current collectors, and cell hardware.
• Experience supporting cell development activities from laboratory-scale trials through to larger format or pilot-scale cell formats.
• Ability to plan, execute, and analyse structured development trials or design of experiments.
• Working knowledge of electrochemical testing and characterisation techniques such as galvanostatic cycling, EIS, CV, GITT/PITT, DQ/DV, or related methods.

Responsibilities

• Support cell development activities at UKBIC involving cell design, material evaluation, test planning, quality requirement definition, and root cause investigations.
• Contribute to the development of battery and electrode designs that are scalable, robust, and aligned with customer performance requirements.
• Support technical feasibility assessments for new commercial and internal projects, identifying key assumptions, risks, maturity gaps, and delivery challenges.
• Provide input into new product introduction projects, supporting gated governance through preparation of work packages, deliverables, technical evidence, and development plans.
• Help identify product and process failure modes associated with design changes, internal developments, or customer technologies to support risk reduction and project delivery.
• Work with Supply Chain to support material, component, and supplier evaluation activities, including preparation for development trials and technical reviews.
• Support collaboration with research and development institutes, external partners, and test houses to help progress next-generation battery technologies towards scale-up.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of UKBIC baseline cell designs, test methods, material specifications, and development learnings to support future programmes.
• Support development activities for new cell formats, capturing build, test, and performance learning to improve future designs, specifications, and development approaches.

Skills

Battery development

Electrochemical testing

DOE planning

Data analysis

Scale-up experience

Six Sigma awareness

Education

MSc Electrochemical Engineering

BEng Materials Science

Tools

Pilot line equipment

Quality systems

Job description

UK Battery Industrialisation Centre is seeking a Cell Development Engineer to advance lithium-ion cell development, testing, and industrialisation across formats. You will work with product, process, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams to ensure technical feasibility and manufacturability for customer and internal programmes.

Key responsibilities include designing test plans, analysing performance data, and contributing to robust development routes.