Research Scientist

NEU Battery Materials Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

NEU Battery Materials Pte Ltd in Singapore is seeking an inquisitive researcher to understand and advance our electrochemical recycling technology. You will design and execute experiments, measure outcomes, and work toward solutions scalable to commercial production.

You will collaborate with the engineering team to tackle complex process development, including ion exchange, precipitation, adsorption, and filtration steps, while framing problems and proposing tests.

Job description

Overview

Founded in 2021, NEU Battery Materials is a Singapore-based climate tech company that developed the world's first patented electrochemical redox recycling method to recycle used lithium batteries. The company focuses on extracting critical lithium from lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries that are found in electric cars and energy storage systems, which will be key in developing a circular supply chain. NEU aims to be the largest, cleanest, and most neutral source of recycled lithium globally. NEU's contribution to electrification and circularity has been recognized by the likes of the Temasek Foundation, BloombergNEF, Forbes Asia, and many others.

This role is about figuring things out. You'll spend your time understanding the current state of our technology, identifying what we don't yet know, and using a combination of your technical background and genuine curiosity to come up with ideas worth testing. Then you'll run those experiments, interpret the results, and work toward solutions that are designed from the start to translate to commercial scale.

The scope spans the treatment of complex process solutions: removing cations, anions and organics through ion exchange, precipitation, adsorption and filtration, understanding how the species in these mixtures interact, and the analytics needed to measure them. As the technology develops, you will also take on broader chemical, electrochemical and materials challenges as they arise. Some problems will be clearly defined. Others you'll need to frame yourself. You'll work closely with the Engineering Team.

What You'll Work On

• Develop and optimise impurity-removal steps for complex process solutions, such as ion exchange (from resin screening and column testing to regeneration and process control), precipitation, coagulation and flocculation, adsorption and membrane filtration
• Investigate how ions and organics interact in mixed solutions, including precipitation kinetics, thermodynamics and crystal growth
• Measure and charact E