Senior Battery Engineer (Drones)New$194K
The opportunity
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U. S.
What you'll do
Own End-to-End ESS Delivery: Drive battery pack development from concept to production on extremely accelerated timelines, taking full ownership of achieving performance requirements, cost targets, reliability issue resolution, design-for-manufacturing (DFM) support, and more.
Serve as the Core Interface: Act as the main point of contact between the Core Battery Group and internal Anduril product teams, maintaining a positive, collaborative relationship throughout the program lifecycle while sharing expertise to the rest of the company.
Define Requirements: Collaborate with program teams to translate user stories and CONOPs into actionable ESS requirements.
Drive Cell Selection: Lead battery cell selection using accelerated de-risking and validation processes.
Lead Design Iterations: Partner with mechanical engineers to deliver design revisions across component testing, mini (scaled down) modules, prototype packs, and production packs—defining the maturity required at each stage.
Support Manufacturing Ramp: Work with manufacturing engineering to scale from prototype pack revisions to production units, ensuring adequate validation and reliability verification in an organized fashion through tools like DFMEAs.
What they're looking for
- Graduate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering,: Manufacturing Engineering, or fundamental Physical Sciences with a focus on energy storage technologies.
- Understanding and familiarity with MIL-STD-882, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-704, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-464.
- Advanced experience designing battery pack components and sub-assemblies with CAD tools.
- Experience with rapid deployment of drones/UAVs.
- Experience with student lead competition/collegian competitions (e.g. Formula: SAE/Baja, Hyperloop, racing, small startups).
- Advanced expertise with: 1) Battery management system (BMS) electrical design, 2) BMS algorithms and software functionality, 3) BMS validation against operational requirements.
- Advanced expertise with: 1) Battery cell characterization methods (mission profile validation, equivalent-circuit model characterization, cycle/calendar life assessment, safety features, etc.), 2) Battery cell or pack modeling/simulation in Matlab or Simulink.
