Sr. Systems Engineer - Battery

About the position

In this role, you will lead the product development engineering functions for FBPS, ensuring alignment with the company's strategies. You will stay informed about industry trends and implement emerging technologies to enhance product offerings. Your responsibilities will include ensuring regulatory compliance for battery products and peripherals, collaborating with department leaders to achieve project goals, and ensuring that technical deliverables meet quality standards and are delivered on time. You will also support design validation teams by reviewing test plans, work closely with marketing to understand customer requirements, assess competitive technologies, and proactively manage risks through Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA). Additionally, you will assist service engineering by providing recommendations to improve service strategies and product technical publications.

Responsibilities

• Leadership and Guidance: Guide the product development engineering functions ensuring alignment with FBPS strategies and implement emerging technologies.
• Regulatory Compliance: Apply relevant standards and regulations to FBPS battery products and peripherals to ensure compliance and safety.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with department leaders to achieve project goals and execute FBPS product strategies.
• Quality and Timeliness: Ensure technical deliverables meet FBPS quality standards and are delivered on time.
• Testing and Safety: Support design validation teams by reviewing test plans to verify design compliance and safety.
• Customer Focus: Work closely with marketing to understand customer technical requirements and create multi-generation technical plans for different applications.
• Innovation and Assessment: Assess competitive technologies for system-level innovation, cost-effectiveness, performance, and functional advantages.
• Risk Management: Proactively support design and integration Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
• Service Improvement: Assist service engineering by providing recommendations to enhance service strategies and product technical publications.

Requirements

• M.S. in Mechanical, Electrical or Controls Engineering or equivalent (BS acceptable with sufficient experience)
• Minimum 10 years of experience in li ion battery development for electric vehicle or related programs.
• Understanding of cross functional battery development topics including thermal, mechanical, electrical, BMS, cell characteristics, cell electrical interconnects, abuse response, and functional safety.
• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills, particularly in high-pressure situations (e.g., launch).
• Well versed in development processes such as APQP and gate driven product development.
• Working knowledge of DFM, DFA, and VAVE principles.
• Demonstrate knowledge of and proficiency with creative problem-solving methods.
• Willingness to travel 10-20% of the time.