Battery Scientist Engineer
Iontra Inc, United States
Job Description
Job Title: Battery Scientist Engineer
Location: Centennial, CO (onsite)
Company Overview:
At Iontra, our breakthrough battery charging solution is born from 9+ years of combined experience working with demanding energy storage applications, from the technical and commercial challenges of leading heavy-duty electric vehicle manufacturing to the complexity and extreme demands of space going and planetary exploration vehicles. Together our team has innovated to answer the needs of our customers for a plug and play solution that improves the performance of today’s lithium batteries. Our solution can be implemented quickly and inexpensively to improve customer experiences with any existing Lithium-ion battery-powered products. For more information on our latest news, visit:
https://www.iontra.com/blog/iontra-closes-67-million-series-b-following-additional-29-million-investment/
Role Summary:
In this role, the electrochemistry researcher will be a key member of the analytics team in multiple capacities. Design of cycling experiments and analysis of electrochemistry data, progresses customer projects and improves Iontra’s technology, while analysis of material characterization data improves the overall understanding of Li-ion batteries and how Iontra improves their charging. This is a position with plenty of opportunities for growth, creativity, and input in the companies’ analytical methodology and equipment. This is a full-time role located in our Centennial, CO office.
You’ll love this job if you:
- Are driven to be part of a team doing big things to help our planet.
- Aspire to work with a successful veteran startup management team.
- Are a self-starter and always find ways to get your work done and help team members.
- Are an organized, detail-oriented person being very good at time management.
- Are determined and resilient to keep things moving forward at a startup pace.
- Are assertive and able to influence and partner with the team to get things done.
- Enjoy new challenges and change.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Design battery cycling experiments using formal DoE methodology for continuous optimization and repeatability to meet internal and customer requirements.
- Independently operate commercial battery cycling equipment and proprietary custom built battery cyclers
- Perform potentiostat-based analysis of batteries and cell materials, including EIS, incremental capacity analysis, and other electrochemical performance and analysis measurement.
- Collect and analyze data from material characterization equipment including XRD, SEM, optical microscopy, and more.
- Work with the Ramp;D and analytics teams to develop and continuously improve Iontra’s lithium-ion cell technology.
- Support efforts to expand analytical material and electrochemical characterization techniques.
- Support technical writing and presentation efforts for customer reports and meetings.
- Interact with customers in meetings.
Requirements
You’ll Need These Qualifications:
- PhD in a hard science field.
- Masters in a hard science field with 2+ years of non-academic experience.
- 4 years of research experience is required.
- 3 years of electrochemical and materials characterization is required.
- 2 years of rechargeable battery experience is required.
- Demonstrable competence with battery testing methods, equipment, and protocols.
- Act as a technical expert about rechargeable batteries.
- Must be comfortable independently conducting various types of EIS experiments and interpreting results.
- Expertise applying design of experiments (DoE) concepts towards optimization and understanding underlying theory (in designing and in application)
- Familiarity with sample preparation for structural characterization including glovebox operation, cell teardown, vis-cell apparatus, EDS, and XRD.
Desired Qualifications:
- 3 years of design and conduct independent ad hoc experiments are preferred.
- 1 year of formal DoE methodology is preferred.
- Experience with python is a plus.
Benefits
Benefits and Compensation:
Salary Range: $90k - $110k (salary is based on education, experience, skillset, and market value).
We offer the following benefits package:
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental amp; Vision)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary amp; ADamp;D)
- Short Term amp; Long-Term Disability
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick amp; Holidays)
- 401(k) Retirement Plan plus company match
- Company Shares Plan
Iontra has an equal emplo