Battery Test Engineer - eVTOL Systems

Pivotal; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Pivotal, a leader in eVTOL technology, seeks a hands-on Battery Test Engineer to own battery performance characterization and safety tests from cell to pack level. You will translate test results into actionable design improvements while advancing our Helix program.

Role requires lab hands-on work, instrumented-testing expertise, and collaboration with simulation and design teams. On-site at our Palo Alto HQ with a strong safety culture and cross-functional responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or related technical field.
• Three+ years of hands-on battery, environmental, abuse, reliability, or aerospace hardware testing experience.
• Experience designing instrumented tests and selecting thermocouples, voltage and current measurement, pressure sensing, thermal imaging, and data-acquisition hardware.
• Experience developing test fixtures, procedures, hazard controls, and technical reports.

Responsibilities

• Own test planning and hands-on execution for lithium-ion cells and aircraft battery packs.
• Plan and execute electrical and thermal performance characterization of cell candidates and prototype packs.
• Operate high-power battery cyclers, cell cyclers, and environmental chambers.
• Deliver correlation-ready datasets to the simulation team and support model-versus-test comparison.
• Design, build, and execute thermal-runaway initiation, propagation, containment, venting, and mitigation tests.

Skills

Battery testing

Test planning

Instrumentation

Laboratory safety

On-site work ability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or related field

Tools

LabVIEW

Python

MATLAB

Dewesoft

NI hardware

Job description

Pivotal, a leader in eVTOL technology, seeks a hands-on Battery Test Engineer to own battery performance characterization and safety tests from cell to pack level. You will translate test results into actionable design improvements while advancing our Helix program.

Role requires lab hands-on work, instrumented-testing expertise, and collaboration with simulation and design teams. On-site at our Palo Alto HQ with a strong safety culture and cross-functional responsibilities.