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Battery Test Engineer
ALSO
Palo Alto, USA
Full-time
Mid
Onsite
USD 220000-255000 yearly / year
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About ALSO.
We’re ALSO, an electric mobility company originally conceived as a part of Rivian. We’re a passionate team of builders, dreamers, doers and innovators, focused on creating entirely new (not to mention, innovative and delightful) vertically integrated, small EVs designed to meet the global mobility challenges of today and tomorrow. Our mission is to inspire everyone to ride ALSO—replacing many local car, truck and SUV miles with ones on vehicles that are more affordable, more enjoyable and 10-50x more efficient.
ALSO is looking for a Battery Test Engineer to build, test, and root cause failures in the next generation of batteries for light electric vehicles. This person will develop and execute test plans, perform physical testing, and evaluate / make design recommendations on battery safety. This role combines hands-on testing expertise with data analysis and technical documentation.
What You Will Do
- Build and test prototype battery packs for light electric vehicles as part of a small agile team.
- Be responsible for the evaluating and improving the battery safety with a focus on passive propagation resistance.
- Collaborate with design, systems and reliability engineers to generate test plans and take responsibility for the end-to-end execution, analysis, and reporting to critical stakeholders
- Execute thermal - electrical performance verification, reliability, durability, and safety (thermal runaway) testing while maintaining detailed documentation of procedures and results
- Set up and operate test equipment including DAQs and various sensors to collect and monitor test data across different test conditions
- Coordinate with 3rd party vendors, contract manufacturers and test facilities.
- Analyze test results and prepare clear technical summaries documenting methodologies, observations, and conclusions
- Support the maintenance and calibration of test equipment while helping develop new test fixtures and setups
- Travel to visit test vendors up to 15% of the time
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