Senior Battery Engineer (Drones)

- 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.

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.

- Get Hands-On: Directly support battery bring-up, test, debug, and vehicle integration activities.

- Sustain Fielded Systems: Conduct root cause analysis and data processing on fielded ESSs to drive countermeasures and design updates as needed.

- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or fundamental Physical Sciences with an applied focus on energy storage technologies, plus 5+ years of experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting energy storage systems.

- Past ownership of battery pack design and prototype assembly.

- Demonstrated experience delivering robust, high-performance energy storage systems with substantial technical ownership and contributions.

- Demonstrated technical contributions to drive one or more energy storage systems from prototype to production.

- Professional awareness of at least one: 1) Battery management system (BMS) electrical design, 2) BMS algorithms and software functionality, 3) BMS validation against operational requirements.

- Professional awareness of at least one: 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.

- Basic capabilities and understanding of CAD tools (CATIA, NX, SolidWorks).

- Understanding of UN38.3, NAVSEA S9310, and/or equivalent (UL, IEC) battery safety standards.

- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.

- 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 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.