Job Description
This role involves designing, building, and testing innovative R&D hardware for advanced battery materials, requiring hands-on mechanical engineering expertise and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams to develop reliable, safe, and high-performance systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build new R&D hardware for core anode technology, including reactors with CVD, bulk materials handling, gas delivery, and pressure vessel systems
- Carry out designs from concept through deployment, ensuring safety and process safety compliance
- Test and validate machines to identify and eliminate sources of drift and uncertainty
- Collaborate with contractors and external vendors for fabrication and assembly
- Document designs, experimental outcomes, and communicate effectively with technical and operational teams
- Plan and execute projects accurately, finding opportunities to improve efficiency and speed
Requirements
- BS in mechanical engineering and at least 10 years of work experience or fewer for candidates with an advanced degree.
- Expertise in performing calculations, analysis and design in accordance with key pressure vessel, structural piping regulatory codes, including ASME Boiler Pressure Vessel Code, Section VIII.
- Frictionless proficiency in mechanical design of complex assemblies, CAD software (SolidWorks preferred), and assembling and maintaining machines.
- Ability to strike the right balance of flexibility versus robustness in designs.
- Proficiency in documenting designs and getting them fabricated by outside vendors.
- Experience with system controls, PLCs, preferably Beckhoff Automation TwinCat 2 or 3.
- Knowledge of AC and DC power fundamentals, sensor signal troubleshooting, and field wiring best practices.
- Experience with complex, multidisciplinary technical systems such as interconnected electronic, mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems.
- Process Safety experience, including understanding and applying elements of Process Safety Management (PSM).
- Great communication skills, including the ability to surface problems constructively.
- Experience in R&D settings with time pressure, open-ended technical problems, and substantial individual autonomy.
- Pass a respirator fit test and be able to wear respiratory protection on a periodic basis.
- Work onsite wearing personal protective equipment including, but not limited to, a lab coat, gloves, safety glasses, and safety toe shoes.
- Move items up to 50 lbs with the assistance of lift equipment and carts.
- Move long distances such as from building to building.
- Can travel both domestically and internationally up to 10% of the time.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range: $172,000 to $218,000 base pay
Work schedule: Onsite work with potential travel up to 10% domestically and internationally
Work environment perks: Personal protective equipment provided, ability to wear respiratory protection, moving items up to 50 lbs with assistance
Additional benefits: Inclusive and diverse work environment, opportunities for bonuses, equity, and other components as part of total rewards package
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