Senior Cell Design Engineer

Job Scope

High level purpose of function.

The Senior Cell Design Engineer will play a key role in the cell development of the Li-S battery. You will be in charge of setting up and executing the long-term Cell development project reporting to director of Li S cell development.

Key Responsibilities

Overall areas of responsibilities and activities

  • Developing lithium-ion batteries for Energy Storage, Electric Vehicles, and other applications
  • Developing and Improvement basic cell system design for lithium-Sulfur battery
  • Evaluating the basic physical property and the fundamental performance of Electrode
  • Cell system design included support and managing the R&D Labs scale.
  • Process concept and investigate included support and managing the R&D Labs scale.
  • Leading cell development project in Li/S cell design team
  • Setting up the development strategy and DOEs
  • Technical lead for internal development with internal stakeholder.
  • Technical counter-part of customer and execution customer project.

Accountability/Authorization

  • Budget responsibility: No
  • Direct reports: No
  • Work environment responsibility: No

Requirements

Educational background and previous experience required for the role

Qualifications and Experience

  • ​​PhD or MSc in chemical engineering/Electrochemistry/chemistry/material science and engineering
  • More than 3 years experiences on the automotive business
  • More than 8 years of practical experience from Li-ion and Li-S battery cell development
  • Extensive experience on cell design and development of Li-ion and Li-S cells
  • Extensive experience on large-scale battery fabrication and validation
  • Experience on Li-ion and Li-S battery manufacturing and mass production
  • Working experience with OEM project for Li-ion and Li-S battery cell/module business
  • Extensive experience on managing the technical team for customer project
  • Strong background from technical culture and proven engineering excellence​


Specific skills

  • Excellent English written and oral skills.
  • Ability to work under high pressure and tight deadlines, excellent time management.
  • Ability to work well with others in a team environment, as well as independently. Passionate & purpose driven.

Personal success factors

  • Ability to work well with others in a team environment, as well as independently
  • Leadership to lead development organization and ability to manage timeline and target
  • Strong managing skill to lead the team members for a technical and relationship matter
  • Achieve both customer sample milestone and requirement specification
  • Ability to work in a high profile and often high-pressure international environment
  • Problem solving skills with appropriate tools