What to Expect
We are seeking an engineer to lead formation development and bring our new cell variant into production. This role focuses on designing a formation strategy that delivers maximum cell quality and performance at minimum factory cost and cycle time. You will run structured development trials to understand formation fundamentals, evaluate tradeoffs between formation duration and cell performance, and help define the metrics and data requirements needed to validate production readiness. You will play a key role in introducing a new cell variant to production — reducing formation cost and time while ensuring world-class quality and performance.
What You’ll Do
- Support factory bring-up activities for the new cell variant — from early development through production ramp
- Design and execute formation development trials to reduce total formation time, minimize cost and equipment utilization, and meet or exceed cell performance and reliability requirements
- Analyze results and determine the optimal balance between formation duration and performance
- Define the critical formation quality metrics and propose how these metrics should be calculated, extracted, and integrated into the formation workflow
- Translate experimental learnings into actionable formation recipes and process specifications
- Partner with cell engineering, equipment, data, and quality teams to ensure a smooth handoff into high-volume manufacturing
- Use battery modeling and simulation to support hypothesis development and guide experimentation
What You’ll Bring
- Experience working with cell formation, electrochemistry, or cell performance testing
- Strong data analysis and ability to interpret time-series and performance data
- Ability to design experiments, manage test execution, and consolidate results into clear recommendations
- Familiarity with Python or similar tools for data analysis
- Battery physics and/or empirical modeling or simulation experience
