Battery Cell Engineer (m/f/x)

Skeleton's Superbattery Development department is looking for a driven

Battery Cell Engineer (m/f/x)

with the vision to match our ambition!

Skeleton Technologies is seeking an experienced Battery Cell Engineer (m/f/x) to join our dynamic team. This position offers a unique opportunity to work in a dynamic environment where your insights will contribute directly to the success of the overall company! As a Battery Cell Engineer (m/f/x) you would be developing the SuperBattery cell to ensure that performance targets for the final product are met.

Our ultimate goal with Skeleton is to build a net zero future, and our role is to make sure the world is aware of how we can help save energy, cut fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, and enable the energy transition.

Your tasks in the net zero journey:

1. Design and Development:

• Cell Design: Creating and optimizing the design of battery cells, including the selection of materials for electrodes, electrolytes, and separators.
• Prototyping: Developing prototypes of new battery cells and conducting initial tests to validate their performance.

2. Performance Optimisation:

• Electrochemical Performance: Enhancing the electrochemical performance of battery cells to improve energy density, power density, charge/discharge rates, and cycle life.
• Thermal Management: Addressing thermal issues to ensure efficient heat dissipation and prevent overheating, which can degrade battery performance and safety.

3. Testing and Evaluation:

• Performance Testing: Conducting a wide range of tests to evaluate the performance of battery cells under different conditions, including temperature, load, and environmental factors.
• Failure Analysis: Investigating and analysing battery cell failures to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.

4. Safety and Reliability:

• Safety Testing: Performing rigorous safety tests to ensure battery cells meet safety standards and regulations, including abuse tests like overcharging, short-circuiting, and mechanical impacts.
• Durability Testing: Assessing the long-term reliability and durability of battery cells under various operational conditions.

5. Manufacturing:

• Process Development: Developing and optimising manufacturing processes for battery cells, ensuring scalability and cost-effectiveness.
• Quality Control: Implementing quality control measures to maintain high standards in battery cell production.

6. Regulatory Compliance and Documentation:

• Compliance: Ensuring that battery cells comply with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Documentation: Preparing detailed documentation of designs, test results, and processes for regulatory submissions and internal records.

7. Sustainability and Cost Reduction:

• Sustainable Materials: Exploring the use of sustainable and environmentally friendly materials in battery cells.
• Cost Optimization: Working on reducing the cost of battery cells through material innovations and efficient manufacturing processes.

Requirements

• MSc or Ph.D. in chemistry, chemical engineering, material science, or a related discipline.
• At least 2 years of industrial experience in battery development.
• Electrochemistry: Understanding the principles of electrochemical reactions and processes is important. Knowledge of battery chemistries, such as lithium-ion is essential.
• Manufacturing Processes: Base knowledge of battery cell manufacturing processes, including electrode fabrication, cell assembly, and quality control techniques.
• Innovation: Capability to develop new materials, designs, and processes to improve battery performance, energy density, safety, and cost-effectiveness.
• Hands-on experience with electrochemical testing methods and prototype manufacturing
• 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:

• Regulations and Standards: Familiarity with industry standards, regulations, and safety protocols related to battery technologies and applications.
• Thermal Management: Understanding heat generation and dissipation within battery cells and systems, including thermal modeling and management techniques.
• Mechanical Engineering: Familiarity with the mechanical design and structural integrity of battery cells, including stress analysis and packaging.
• Experience in handling large measurement datasets.
• Materials research experience with supercapacitor or high-power battery materials.
• Hands-on experience in 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.