Battery Modeling Engineer
Core
Develop physics-based models to architect, optimize, and validate aircraft hardware and operational systems, specifically focusing on battery performance, charging behavior, and lifetime.
Role type
Senior IC battery modeling engineer (electrochemistry & systems)
Builds
Validated energy models for fleet optimization, cell selection roadmaps, and state-estimation algorithms
Domain
Autonomous drone logistics / electrochemical engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
cell electrochemistry, heat transfer, thermodynamics, electrical circuits, numerical methods, optimization, SPM, SPMe, P2D, equivalent-circuit models, battery degradation mechanisms, EIS, HPPC, OCV, aging studies, MATLAB, Python, Julia, C++, Rust
Preferred skills
PyBaMM, battery degradation and lifetime modeling, battery state estimation algorithms
Technologies
PyBaMM, MATLAB, Python, Julia, C++, Rust
Responsibilities
Own cell-level models across electrochemical and equivalent-circuit fidelities; Define cell electrochemistry roadmap and lead cell benchmarking; Design and analyze characterization and validation campaigns; Develop pack-level electro-thermal models; Build state-estimation and controls-oriented algorithms; Integrate validated battery and energy models into simulation and operational software
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC