Sr Battery DRE
- Serve as the internal technical authority for HV battery pack design, guiding suppliers and ensuring alignment with program, safety, and regulatory requirements.
- Critically evaluate supplier design proposals, material choices, and architecture decisions—providing independent engineering judgment to influence outcomes.
- Lead and oversee technical decisions related to HV battery architecture (fusing strategy, busbar design, service disconnects, safety interlocks, grounding).
- Guide material selection for pack enclosures, structures, seals, thermal interfaces, and insulation systems.
- Collaborate with internal teams (systems, thermal, electrical, manufacturing, safety) to ensure seamless integration of the battery into the overall vehicle platform.
- Drive DFMEA reviews, DVP&R planning, and validation with suppliers, ensuring complete coverage of safety-critical areas.
- Represent the battery pack design in program-level reviews, clearly communicating risks, trade-offs, and status to leadership.
- Support supplier and manufacturing site activities, including build support, issue resolution, and launch readiness.
- Maintain ownership of the released design within PLM systems, ensuring traceability and configuration control.
- Contribute to long-term battery strategy, including technology scouting, architecture trade-offs, and design standards for future platforms.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
- 6+ years of HV battery design and release experience
- Direct experience taking a battery from clean-sheet concept through production launch.
- Strong technical background in HV battery pack architecture, subsystem design, and materials engineering.
- Proven ability to independently assess, critique, and guide supplier-led designs.
- Demonstrated success in delivering complex supplier-developed components or systems.
- Experience with DFMEA, DVP&R, APQP, and release processes.
- Strong leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Willingness to travel to supplier and manufacturing sites.
- Experience with next-generation pack concepts (cell-to-pack, structural batteries, advanced thermal integration).
- Familiarity with BMS integration, HV distribution, and functional safety (ISO 26262).
- Prior OEM or Tier-1 experience leading supplier-developed battery systems.
- Strategic mindset with ability to translate program lessons into long-term product direction.
- Safety First
- Delight Customers
- One Team
- Relentless Improvement
- Fast, Frugal, and Scrappy
- Respectful Collaboration
- Positive Legacy
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