Senior Battery Engineer, Mechanical & Pack Design

About this role

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE JOB

Anduril is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer with expertise in energy storage subsystem development. Looking for a self-starter with technical experience in defense, aerospace, industrial or electrification industries to apply their skills to meet Anduril’s unique set of challenges. This individual will be responsible for energy storage development and systems engineering, from concept to production, while ensuring alignment with strategic business goals supporting the AD&S team. The engineer could also be involved in managing key vendor relationships, and ensuring performance and reliability in our cutting-edge technologies.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Drive end-to-end energy storage system (ESS) development on extremely accelerated timelines

• Take ownership to ensure successful battery pack delivery. Ex: meet cost targets, quickly identify and resolve reliability issues, support DFM to achieve reliable and low-cost manufacturing, etc.

• Serve as main interface between Core Battery Group and internal customers (Anduril product teams) to maintain positive and collaborative relationship

Execute and/or deliver on the following ESS development steps:

• Collaborate with program teams to define actionable ESS requirements from user story/CONOPs

• Drive battery cell selection with accelerated de-risk/validation

• Collaborate with mechanical engineers to deliver battery design revisions, including scaled "mini" modules, prototype modules, prototype packs, and A- B- and C-sample production packs and define the level of maturity required at each step

• Collaborate with manufacturing engineering to ramp from proto pack revisions to production units, while ensuring adequate validation and reliability verification with tools like DFMEAs

• Hands-on support of battery bring-up, test, debug, and vehicle integration

• Sustain fielded ESSs with root cause analysis and data processing to drive countermeasures/design updates as needed

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or fundamental Physical Sciences with applied application focus on energy storage technologies, with 5+ years of experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting energy storage systems

• Demonstrated delivery of one or more energy storage systems from prototype to production

• Meaningful support and contributions to battery pack manufacturing in LRiP and beyond

• Past ownership of battery pack design and prototype assembly

• Demonstrated experience in delivering robust, high-performance, energy storage systems with substantial technical ownership/contributions

• Professional awareness of: 1)…