Battery Materials Research Intern (PhD) – Santa Clara

Nissan

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 34,000 - 48,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Nissan in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Battery Experimental Intern to join the Battery Materials & Informatics team. This 12-week, full-time internship focuses on designing, synthesizing, and evaluating advanced battery materials to accelerate automotive energy storage development.

You will work with multidisciplinary teams across materials science, electrochemistry, data science, and AI, contributing to cutting-edge research and presenting findings through reports and discussions.

Qualifications

Pursuing a PhD in a related field (Materials Science, Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Physics, Chemical Engineering).
Research experience in battery materials, electrochemistry, energy storage or related tech.

Responsibilities

Design, synthesize, and characterize novel battery materials.
Assemble and evaluate electrochemical cells with advanced testing methods.
Characterize materials using analytical tools (structural, chemical, morphological).
Analyze data to identify structure-property-performance relationships.
Collaborate with computational scientists and experimental teams to accelerate battery R&D.
Present findings through reports and discussions.