Senior Applications Engineer
QuantumScape Corporation•San Jose, CA
•$103,100 - $157,300•Hybrid
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. This role requires extensive experience and understanding of lithium-ion cell technology and architecture, materials, and components to collaborate with a multidisciplinary team and be accountable for aspects of customer information management.
Requirements
- Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills.
- A constant risk management mindset.
- Ability to create a sense of community amongst members of the project teams.
- Good knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring, and controlling programs.
- Conflict resolution skills.
- Masters +3 years of industry experience or PhD in materials or chemistry-related area with professional experience in customer and vendor environments.
- Extensive experience and understanding of lithium-ion cell technology and architecture, materials and components and ideally experience in solid-state battery technology.
- Application of scientific programming (e.g., Python) and statistical methods to analyze large datasets
- Possess outstanding communication skills both verbal and written form. These are vital because the position is cross-functional in nature and demands frequent interactions and deliberations with other departments, customers.
Nice To Haves
- experience in solid-state battery technology
Responsibilities
- Coordinate with internal cell R&D teams and cell manufacturing teams to create customer plans, track, and maintain cell specifications and roadmaps, release schedules, program milestones and deliverables, etc.
- Communicate technical customer information to internal stakeholders.
- Coordinate and deliver technical presentations to customers.
- Conducts internal meetings, calls, follow-ups and other communications with stakeholders and management throughout the business project development and implementation stages to ensure deliverables to customers.
- Provide timely responses and project reports to internal teams and customers.
Benefits
- employee paid health care
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
