Battery Scientist (m/f/x)

Skeleton's Superbattery Development department is looking for a driven

Battery Scientist

with the vision to match our ambition.

As a Battery Scientist, you would develop the SuperBattery cell to ensure performance targets for the final product are met.

Your tasks in the net zero journey:

• Develop our SuperBattery cells to hit specifications
• Optimize the cell and electrode design to reach cell energy and power performance targets
• Optimize the electrolyte and non-active cell components (e.g. separator)
• Build together with technicians prototype cells (laboratory cells to industrial cells) and test them
• Analyze test data and make conclusions to improve development
• Validate components from alternative suppliers or development partners.
• Ensure with industrial engineers that the developed cells and electrodes are mass manufacturable
• Provide expertise to resolve production and quality issues.

Requirements

We don’t expect to master it all. At Skeleton, you’ll have the support of the team and we work together to achieve our goals. However, there are requirements you should be able to fulfill to succeed in this role:

• MSc or Ph.D. in chemistry, chemical engineering, material science, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of academic and/or industrial research experience in Li-ion battery development.
• Hands-on experience with electrochemical testing methods such as galvanostatic charging, cyclic voltammetry, and EIS.
• Experience in interpreting results from physical characterization methods such as SEM, XRD, XPS, and ICP-MS.
• Skills in data analytics and visualization.
• Systemic problem-solving skills.
• You are a good team player and you have a data-driven mindset.
• Any single or a combination of the following experiences/skills is a bonus:
• Experience in leading a research team.
• Experience in setting up an R&D lab (we are growing fast).
• Experience in building and testing pouch cells.
• Experience in handling large measurement datasets.
• Materials research experience with supercapacitor or high-power battery materials.
• Hands-on experience in organic chemistry including synthesis, characterization, and evaluation.

Benefits

We're not just about energy storage. We're about redefining energy for a net zero future, and we'd love for you to be a part of our journey.

• We offer flexible working hours, with the possibility of mobile working without core working hours and sufficient freedom for your own ideas.
• A flat hierarchy culture - fostering our great working atmosphere.
• Use the training budget to expand your knowledge and competencies.
• Helpfulness among colleagues is not just an empty phrase but a practice every day.
• A motivating opportunity for continuous growth at Skeleton. 
• An additional day off every year for your birthday.
• Use our Edenred Voucher Card for your shopping experience with a top-up every month.
• We offer a company pension scheme for your financial security in the future.
• Be active & participate in our internal sports challenges (SkelFitness).
• We have a pet-friendly office.
• We celebrate our successes with Team Events, Summer & New Year’s parties, and other initiatives! 
  

We're not just about energy storage. We're about redefining energy for a net zero future, and we'd love for you to be a part of our journey.

About Skeleton

Skeleton Technologies is a Global Cleantech 100 company and a technology leader in high-power energy storage for transportation, grid, automotive, and industrial applications.

For us, developing and producing the best energy storage solutions is a means to an end: helping companies to reduce CO2 emissions and save energy.

We work with some of the largest companies in the world from automotive and industrial OEMs to truck fleet operators and aerospace prime contractors. Our products decrease CO2 emissions and fuel consumption, improve power quality, and empower wider electrification of the biggest industries globally.

Our supercapacitor and SuperBattery energy storage technologies, based on patented curved graphene, represent the biggest technological advancement in the industry in the last 20 years and the use of this innovative material provides our products with an unparalleled advantage in power and energy density.

Skeleton Technologies is located in multiple locations: headquarters in Tallinn (Estonia), manufacturing in Großröhrsdorf, materials development in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, several locations in Finland, and an office in Berlin. Currently, we are about to open the largest supercapacitor factory in the world in the Leipzig area, Germany. Further expansion plans will shortly lead Skeleton to France.