Battery Material Engineer , Battery Cell - Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg in Grünheide (Mark) bei Tesla

Battery Material Engineer (m/w/d), Battery Cell - Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg in Grünheide (Mark) bei Tesla

Tesla

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.

The role

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 powder/liquid-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

Strong communication skills

Flexibility to work in a new facility and accommodate changing priorities based on what is most critical
Familiar with transport and thermodynamic parameters of battery materials
Experience with battery cyclers, chemical analysis techniques for battery materials, and EIS interpretation
Ability to learn new concepts and methods from the literature, propose design of experiments, and execute independently
BS + 4 years or MS + 2 years, or PhD. Senior positions also available

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.