Senior Battery FA Engineer

Position Title: Senior Battery FA Engineer
Contract Duration: 18 months 
Work Location: Redmond, WA - on site

Reason for the need? The Battery Lab team has added new disciplines to its group that requires a different technical skill set in lab to support new Engineer on team. Will be working independently but will be overseen by new engineer.

OVERVIEW/PROJECT DETAILS: The Battery Lab Insights Team manages battery performance, end life cycle, failure analysis, and development of new battery technology.

MUST HAVE SKILLS:

• At least 2 years of experience in battery testing, analysis, or design.
• Knowledge of battery pack operation, including protection functions, thermal management, and serial bus communications (I2C/IIC, SMB/SMBus and BMS)
• Strong background in electrical engineering
• Exceptional troubleshooting skills - working in an ad-hoc environment so will be working on various devices and requirements each day 
• Adept at using battery lab equipment, such as power supplies, multimeters, oscilloscopes, electronic loads, battery cyclers, SMU’s, logic analyzers, and thermal chambers.
• Strong focus on lab safety associated with the handling of hazardous materials.
• Excellent soldering skills including the ability to handle SMD components as small as 0201.
• Ability to organize and present data using spreadsheets and data visualization methods
• Familiarity with executing tests from PC command line
• Experience working in and maintaining 5S in a lab environment
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Proactive and eager to learn new technologies and skills

• Consumer electronics experience
• Experience supporting batteries for computers, tablets, phones, accessories
• Electronics Certificate

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, electronics, or related field, or 5+ years equivalent work experience.

• Consumer electronics

• Perform battery failure analysis for consumer electronics applications including initial issue diagnosis and specific component failure analysis
• Work with battery suppliers to get root cause and corrective action
• Provide battery pack design improvement feedback to the battery dev team
• Instrument prototype components for use by the development team
• Assist battery pack design engineers in troubleshooting for new designs
• Test and validate fuel gauge chips and new battery firmware algorithms
• Build and maintain a wide variety of battery test and connection fixtures
• Analyze and report test results and findings to the battery engineering team
• Support the development and improvement of battery testing methods and procedures

• Work collaboratively with other technicians and engineers in the battery lab and across departments

• Perform detailed teardowns of battery packs and provide analysis reports to the battery team