Energy Technologies Engineer/Scientist

The MITRE Corporation • New Bedford, MA

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

MITRE Lab’s Energy, Environmental, Material and Chemical Sciences is seeking a senior engineer with expertise in power and energy technologies to work in a dynamic analytical environment focused on solving our customers energy technology and resilience challenges. This department serves as a vanguard for MITRE to meet the future needs of our customers, requiring technical excellence while encouraging creativity and fostering interests in current and emerging technologies across its diverse membership. Your future colleagues are a collegial team of energy and environmental engineers, material scientists, systems engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, chemists, physicists, and civil engineers who work across MITRE’s diverse sponsors and partners. MITRE’s advanced energy program provides innovative solutions to strengthen energy resilience and readiness to improve national energy security. We are expanding our program to address key challenges.

Requirements

• BS and 2 years of relevant experience in one of the following fields: Chemical Engineering, Electrochemistry, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, and/or Physics.
• Deep technical expertise in one or more battery technology areas, including: performance testing and prediction, safety analysis and management, packaging and ruggedization, manufacturing processes and quality control, system/application integration, in situ battery management and control system development, and chemistry design.
• Strong technical writing and oral presentation skills.
• The ability to conduct research and development of new energy and power technologies to meet customer requirements in a collaborative environment with both internal and external researchers.
• Strong critical‑thinking skills and a proactive, self‑directed approach to problem solving and research execution with minimal supervision.
• Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a U.S. government security investigation and must be able to obtain a Department of Defense SECRET clearance.
• Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• MS or PhD in one of the following areas: Chemical Engineering, Electrochemistry, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, and/or Physics.
• Extensive experience and expertise, including recent publications, in the design and evaluation of batteries and battery systems.
• Experience in designing and or testing early-stage energy storage products such as batteries, fuel cells, electrolyzers or similar.
• Experience working with Environmental Health and Safety organizations to documents hazards, create Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), create a safe working environment by mitigating safety hazards.
• Basic understanding of a broad range of energy storage, energy conversion, energy harvesting technologies, power distribution, and power management systems.

Responsibilities

• Identify integration, deployment, and performance‑assessment challenges for diverse energy technologies (e.g., storage systems, generation assets, micro‑grid controls) using analytical, model‑based (e.g., physics‑based or systems‑engineering) and experimental methods.
• Analyze scientific, regulatory, and market‑driven trends that shape the future landscape of energy solutions and assess their implications for MITRE customers and global supply‑chain ecosystems.
• Characterize the maturity, limitations, and capability gaps of manufacturing processes, supply‑chain steps, and field‑deployment pathways for a variety of energy‑system components.
• Design, prototype, and evaluate an expansive portfolio of power and energy technologies—ranging from advanced storage chemistries and power‑electronics converters to distributed generation and micro‑grid architectures—to generate actionable courses of action that satisfy customer requirements.
• Frame and communicate technology performance, lifecycle cost, and value propositions within specific customer applications, enabling data‑driven decision making.

Benefits

• competitive benefits
• exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth
• a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior