Silicon Anode Battery R&D Intern (PhD)

Enovix Corporation; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship from senior battery-scientz

Hands-on silicon anode development

Job summary

Enovix Corporation is seeking an R&D Intern to support design, fabrication, testing, and analysis of lithium-ion batteries with silicon-based anodes at our Fremont, CA campus. The role targets PhD students or graduates with strong electrochemistry and battery materials experience.

You will work across fundamental science, experimental execution, and product-oriented development, collaborating with scientists and engineers to advance high-performance cells and materials.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in a PhD program focusing on batteries, electrochemistry, materials science, or related field.
• Experience with lithium-ion batteries, preferably silicon-based anodes.
• Hands-on battery cell assembly and electrochemical testing.

Responsibilities

• Design silicon-based anode materials, composites, binders, conductive additives, and electrode formulations.
• Fabricate electrodes and coin, pouch, or other test cells for electrochemical evaluation.
• Perform battery testing including formation, cycling, rate capability, fast-charge, impedance, and diagnostics.
• Analyze capacity retention, coulombic efficiency, impedance growth, swelling, and other metrics.
• Investigate silicon anode degradation mechanisms such as volume expansion and SEI evolution.
• Use characterization techniques like SEM, TEM, XRD, XPS, Raman, FTIR, BET, or TGA as applicable.
• Develop data-driven recommendations to guide silicon anode material and cell design.
• Document procedures, results, and conclusions in technical reports and presentations.
• Collaborate across materials, cell engineering, process development, and product teams.

Skills

Electrochemistry

Battery testing

Data analysis

Laboratory skills

Collaboration

Education

PhD student

Tools

Python

MATLAB

JMP

Origin

Job description

Enovix Corporation is seeking an R&D Intern to support design, fabrication, testing, and analysis of lithium-ion batteries with silicon-based anodes at our Fremont, CA campus. The role targets PhD students or graduates with strong electrochemistry and battery materials experience.

You will work across fundamental science, experimental execution, and product-oriented development, collaborating with scientists and engineers to advance high-performance cells and materials.