Senior Battery Pack Engineer — Lead & Validate

East Penn Manufacturing Company

Ann Arbor (MI)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

3 days ago

Be an early applicant

Application generator

Don’t send a generic resume — generate a resume and cover letter tailored to this exact role.

Get past ATS filters

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Group health insurance

Retirement Savings Plan with company 3

Paid holidays and PTO

Employee assistance program

Fitness Discounts

Promotional opportunities

Job summary

Navitas/East Penn is seeking a Senior Product Engineer to lead complex battery-pack product development from concept through production and launch for automotive, industrial, and commercial applications. This role provides technical leadership across mechanical, electrical, systems, and thermal teams while delivering robust products that meet performance and safety objectives.

You will refine requirements, drive design reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate with suppliers to resolve issues,

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Systems engineering, or related field.
7–10 years of product development or engineering experience.
Extensive experience developing complex electro-mechanical products from concept through production.
Strong understanding of multi-disciplinary engineering principles.
Experience defining product requirements, architecture, interfaces, validation strategies, and specs.
Experience leading complex product integration, testing, root-cause analysis, and problem resolution.
Strong engineering judgment and ability to make cross-disciplinary decisions.
Strong technical communication and cross-functional leadership.
Ability to independently lead complex engineering workstreams with limited oversight.

Responsibilities

Lead complex battery-pack product development activities from concept through production and launch.
Develop and refine product requirements, specifications, interfaces, and technical acceptance criteria from system and customer needs.
Develop and influence product architecture and resolve complex interfaces across mechanical, electrical, thermal, structural, and packaging domains.
Lead product integration activities and make product-level technical decisions within assigned programs.
Lead major design reviews, technical reviews, and issue-resolution across engineering functions.
Lead prototype builds, design verification, validation, and simulation-to-test correlation for complex products.
Drive root-cause investigations for test, field, manufacturing, supplier, and reliability issues and implement corrective actions.
Lead product-level tradeoffs involving performance, cost, quality, reliability, manufacturability, serviceability, timing, and risk.
Lead engineering changes through impact analysis, review, validation, and release.
Lead supplier technical resolution for critical components and interfaces.
Develop and improve product architecture, layouts, BOMs, specs, standards, and documentation.
Drive risk identification, mitigation planning, and closure across workstreams.
Present technical recommendations and status to leadership.
Develop methods, standards, and processes to improve development effectiveness.
Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across workstreams.