AddressPosition: Senior Development Engineer
Location: Cambridge
Salary: £37,000 - £45,000 (Depending on experience)
Sector: Scientific - Battery Storage
Role & Responsibilities
- Lead projects focused on improving key aspects of the energy storage technology
- Lead the validation of new technology from the Research team, its scale-up and implementation into new prototypes
- Identify development opportunities and find creative solutions to improve a prototype’s KPI’s
- Generate new prototype concepts and carry out experimental activity to support their development
- Assist in managing the interface between the Research and Prototype Development teams
- Consider long term manufacturing strategies for the technology with respect to potential future commercial applications and products.
Key Activities & Responsibilities
- Provide development expertise within a multi-disciplinary development team
- Liaise with, and effectively support, Research scientists engaged in polymer and electrochemistry research
- Contributing to various R&D programs across the company
Key Relationships & Interfaces Internal:
- Head of Prototype Development
- Director of Research and Development
- Research Group Leader and wider Research Team
- CEO
- Management team and colleagues External:
- Suppliers
- Other external influences as appropriate
Person Specification
- Science or engineering, Bachelors or Masters, degree essential
- A minimum of 4 years’ experience in a relevant R&D environment
- Demonstratable hands-on engineering skillset coupled with a technical capability to understand chemical systems and processes
- Experience of process development and optimisation, with a focus on pilot line manufacturing
- Experience in scaling up technology and increasing TRL
- Project management knowledge, managing multiple objectives and maintaining stakeholder alignment
- Great teamwork and communication skills
- Desire to work in a dynamic start-up R&D environment with early-stage technology
- Experience with batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, electrolysers or other energy storage and conversion technologies is advantageous.
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