Remote Battery Materials Engineering Intern

HARDDRIVE; Singapore; Remote; SGD 20,000 - 31,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship from founder

Real project ownership

Portfolio and written reference

Monthly stipend

Job summary

HARDDRIVE is a Singapore-based engineering consultancy seeking a battery-focused engineer-in-training to work directly with the founder on live client projects. You will be handed scope, source documents, and a deadline, then be expected to deliver analyses for client-facing deliverables with review.

The role requires hands-on battery experience, understanding of Li-ion chemistry, and the ability to work independently under deadlines.

Qualifications

• Degree in Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
• Prior hands-on battery experience is required (lab, test bench, production).
• Knowledge of Li-ion cell chemistry and differences between NMC, LFP, LCO, NCA in voltage window, energy density, thermal behavior, and failure modes.
• Familiarity with cycling, capacity fade testing, internal resistance or EIS, thermal characterization, SEM, XRD, DSC or TGA, glovebox work, BMS configuration, pack-level integration.
• Be precise with numbers; a decimal place can matter for safety and reliability.
• Strong writing ability and independent work ethic.

Responsibilities

• Review datasheets, specifications and design docs for battery packs, BMS units, chargers and inverters and identify inconsistencies.
• Support independent safety reviews: charging architecture, cell chemistry limits, BMS thresholds, protection logic, and topology.
• Build and maintain technical risk registers mapping failures to severity, likelihood and mitigation.
• Draft test and commissioning plans and support remote verification of evidence and safety testing.
• Research and benchmark cell chemistries, materials and competing architectures for client decisions.
• Write clean, cited technical documentation to reporting standards.
• Contribute to non-battery work such as materials selection, failure analysis and reliability tasks.

Skills

Battery experience

Independent worker

Numerical accuracy

Technical writing

Li-ion chemistry knowledge

Education

Degree in Materials Science / related

Final-year student considered

Tools

SEM

XRD

DSC

TGA

EIS

Glovebox

BMS configuration

Pack integration

Job description

HARDDRIVE is a Singapore-based engineering consultancy seeking a battery-focused engineer-in-training to work directly with the founder on live client projects. You will be handed scope, source documents, and a deadline, then be expected to deliver analyses for client-facing deliverables with review.

The role requires hands-on battery experience, understanding of Li-ion chemistry, and the ability to work independently under deadlines.