(Senior) Battery Material Engineer (m/w/d), Battery Cell - Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg

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Job Description

Tesla seeks a (Senior) Battery Material Engineer to contribute to the ramp-up and expansion of battery material components at their Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to qualify multi-source materials, from component to full cell level. Responsibilities include assessing material properties, working with suppliers, expanding characterization and testing efforts, identifying and solving process issues, and interpreting battery degradation modes. The ideal candidate will have a PhD in Electrochemistry (or MS with relevant experience), strong communication skills, and experience with active material/electrode testing and chemical analysis techniques for battery materials.
Must have:
  • PhD in Electrochemistry or equivalent
  • Experience with LIB cells
  • Strong communication skills
  • Electrochemistry understanding
  • Active material/electrode testing experience
  • Chemical analysis experience
Good to have:
  • Coding experience (Python)
  • Data treatment/evaluation skills
Perks:
  • Competitive salary
  • Tesla shares or bonuses
  • Pension program
  • 30 vacation days
  • Employee insurances
  • Relocation and commuting support
What to Expect

Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy. Revolutionary strategies and products were developed within a few years and successfully launched on a large scale. This is only possible through extraordinary speed, innovation and efficiency. 

Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg forms the perfect basis for rolling out Tesla's incredible success story in Europe. The most important pillar for this is our employees. Their passion, motivation and engagement ensure that we achieve our goals. We are looking for you to continue and expand this success story together.  

This position will collaborate with multiple teams across Tesla to enable ramp and expansion of Tesla’s use of battery material components. The candidate will be responsible for unlocking key multisource materials and qualifying them from the individual component to the full cell level. The candidate will be responsible for multiple, high-impact projects which will involve implementing existing techniques, developing new techniques, and analyzing existing data to rapidly recognize and solve key process upsets/deviations and performance gaps. We want team focused employees with strong communication skills who challenge and want to be challenged, and who create and innovate.  We want teammates who will thrive in a fast-paced company with real hardware and are self-motivated.

What You’ll Do
  • Contribute to our efforts to better understand lithium-ion battery performance and degradation
  • Be a key member of a cross functional team to help determine battery material impact on product performance
  • Coordinate and assess multisource battery materials’ physical, electrochemical, and safety properties from the component level up to the full cell to define and determine levels of sameness
  • Work closely with the commercial and manufacturing teams to identify, interface, and assess multisource suppliers technical and commercial capability and quality control
  • Expand material characterization and cell testing efforts to keep up with demand
  • Use electrochemical/chemical tests to interpret and quantify degradation modes of various battery chemistries traced back to battery material properties
  • Identify and quickly solve any key process issues or deviations that might occur as it relates to the battery materials


What You’ll Bring
  • PhD in Electrochemistry or MS and several years of experience researching/working on LIB cells
  • Strong communication skills
  • Accommodate changing priorities based on what is most critical
  • Strong fundamental understanding of electrochemistry, especially lithium-ion battery related
  • Experience with active material/electrode testing, chemical analysis techniques for battery materials, and advanced data treatment/evaluation. Coding experience (e.g. using Python) is a plus
  • Ability to learn new concepts and methods from the literature, propose design of experiments, and execute independently


What we offer 

You will be working in our state-of-the-art Gigafactory where you’ll solve the world's most interesting problems with the best and brightest people who share a passion to change the world. Tesla’s compensation package includes competitive salary and Tesla shares or bonusses. Typical benefits that are offered are a pension program, 30 vacation days, employee insurances, relocation and commuting support.

 

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