Battery Materials Lead
Core
Lead technical direction and team management for developing battery-grade recycled iron phosphate, LFP cathode active material (CAM) via spray pyrolysis, and NMC pCAM via co-precipitation.
Role type
Senior IC battery materials lead (R&D)
Builds
Recycled iron phosphate, LFP CAM, and NMC pCAM for battery supply chains
Domain
Battery materials, cathode active materials, recycling, spray pyrolysis, co-precipitation
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Team leadership, technical accountability, customer specification management, characterization and validation protocol design, iron phosphate/LFP synthesis, NMC pCAM production, reactor design and control, layered oxide cathode expertise, surface coatings/dopants, SEM/XRD/ICP-OES/BET/particle size analysis, lab build-out, customer qualification
Preferred skills
Predictive machine learning model development, AI platform application for particle characterization, patent application support
Technologies
Spray pyrolysis, conventional co-precipitation, SEM, XRD, ICP-OES/MS, BET
Responsibilities
Build and lead the battery materials team; agree technical specifications and acceptance criteria with customers; own technical direction of characterization, validation, and qualification protocols; lead development of recycled iron phosphate to battery grade; lead development of CAM and NMC pCAM production processes; set composition and morphology targets for NMC grades; run targeted R&D on scalable routes; develop IP and predictive machine learning models for process optimization
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership