Ceramics Processing Specialist (Director or Senior Director)
About The Position
QuantumScape is on a mission to transform energy storage with solid-state lithium-metal battery technology. The company’s next-generation batteries are designed to enable greater energy density, faster charging and enhanced safety to support the transition away from legacy energy sources toward a lower carbon future. You are an outstanding engineer or scientist with deep empirical and hands-on practice in ceramic process engineering. You are quantitative and thoughtful; you are a good communicator and an extraordinary teammate. You seek out challenges and learning opportunities. Your responsibility will be to provide experience in ceramic processing and to collaborate with our partners to scale-up manufacturing of ceramics. You have >16 years of practical, applied knowledge with ceramic processing techniques.
Requirements
- Advanced technical degree (Master’s or Phd) with 16+ years of experience and world-class expertise in technical ceramics.
- Knowledge and experience in safe chemical handling and laboratory practices
- Experience in scaling ceramics manufacturing
- Innovative outlook, creative thinking
- Deep knowledge of ceramic processing especially powder processing, ceramic formulation development, slip development, ceramic tape casting and coating, and sintering
- Proven ability to understand, characterize and drive process development
- Chemical intuition for formulation and compositions
- Deep knowledge of statistical methods for process improvement and control
- Ability to apply quality engineering tools and methods to address quality problems
- Capable of working independently and driving projects to completion
- Ability to communicate clearly and candidly; a strong affinity for teamwork
- Thrive in a fast-paced, technically exciting environment and quickly adapt to changes
- References that can attest to your resourcefulness, curiosity, creativity, and integrity.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in ceramic materials and processing of thin ceramic films; ceramic green forming experience especially slot-die or other slurry-based coating methods
- Knowledge of statistical analysis, scripting, querying. Specifically, DOEs, statistical power analysis, confidence intervals, normality testing, ANOVA, curve fitting, classification and regression.
- Familiarity with inspection techniques and in-line quality monitoring systems
- Material properties and characterization
- Experience in solid electrolyte or energy materials
- Your passion for making an impact on the world's energy challenges
Responsibilities
- Bring considerable ceramics process engineering experience to suggest solutions to optimize a process, from materials to process to equipment
Benefits
- QuantumScape also offers an annual bonus and a generous RSU/Equity package as part of its compensation plan.
- In addition, we do offer a tremendous benefits plan including employee paid health care, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), and other benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
