Lunar Battery Cell Engineer

Socket.dev; Washington; On-site; USD 145,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Stock Options

Paid time off

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a Battery Cell Engineer to own the cell-level design, development, and testing for a common battery used across lunar programs. You will decompose vehicle requirements to cell specs, collaborate with suppliers, develop test methods, and drive cell selection based on data.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in lithium-ion battery testing, strong electrochemistry knowledge, and experience with space applications.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of direct experience testing lithium-ion batteries; 3+ year in space applications desired.
• Strong understanding of electrochemistry properties of lithium-ion batteries; demonstrated experience in characterizing lithium-ion cell.
• Familiar with dQdV, dVdQ analytical techniques and other electrochemical techniques such as EIS, GITT, CV, PITT.

Responsibilities

• As the Battery Cell Engineer, you are responsible for the cell-level aspects of the battery design, development, qualification, and hardware production.
• Work with cross-functional team to decompose requirements from vehicle level to cell-level requirements/specifications.
• Collaborate with cell suppliers to identify and evaluate cell technologies that meet Blue requirements for different applications.
• Design, develop, and execute test methods to evaluate various candidate lithium-ion cells; coordinate resources for internal and external testing.
• Drive the decision for cell selection based on the test results.
• Extract parameters from cell data to support model creation and validation.
• Apply different electrochemical techniques to identify cell degradation mechanisms; conduct cell failure analysis.
• Use cell testing data to support control/estimation algorithms used in battery management system.
• Work with Battery pack design team to improve cell/pack performance (including thermal runaway passive propagation resistance).
• Review academic/industry literature of lithium-ion cells and beyond to advance Blue Origin’s battery technology.
• Work closely with the program and manufacturing management team through build, test, and delivery of flight hardware.
• Support the development of the Automated Test Equipment for acceptance and qualification testing of cells and battery packs.

Skills

Lithium-ion testing

Electrochemistry knowledge

Cell design

Space applications

Travel readiness

US citizenship or PR

Education

B.S. in relevant engineering

M.S. preferred

Tools

Python

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a Battery Cell Engineer to own the cell-level design, development, and testing for a common battery used across lunar programs. You will decompose vehicle requirements to cell specs, collaborate with suppliers, develop test methods, and drive cell selection based on data.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in lithium-ion battery testing, strong electrochemistry knowledge, and experience with space applications.