Battery Thermal Engineer

A globally leading technology company is looking for a Battery Thermal Engineer to join its Battery Modeling team. In this role, you will be responsible for thermal modeling across all products and fully integrated with the Product Design team from the earliest stages, analyzing and informing the design of cutting-edge technologies. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide design guidance on the thermal impact of product features and help shape innovative solutions. If you are passionate about advanced thermal modeling and want to make an impact on next-generation products, we encourage you to apply!
Job Responsibilities:
Develop of state of art Thermal as well as multi-physics finite Element (FE) models of cell, pack, and BMS sub-systems
Provide deign and trade-off guidance to the PD teams through early stage simulations, particularly in cases such as fast charging and high power functions
Generate models/capability to convert power map into thermal outputs
Perform advanced Thermal/CFD simulations to evaluate and enhance understanding of the various boundary conditions at the cell, pack, BMS sub-systems around battery packs well as in system
Use best in class tools and solvers to generate the necessary simulation models and results
Work with test and reliability labs, to develop physical test methods, to gather necessary data for results validation
Work with system teams, to collaborate on developing detailed sub-models to be used in assembly level simulations
Develop optimized workflows and/or reusable templates for regularly required thermal simulations.
Develop and implement thermal modeling best practices
Work with CAE vendors to drive the functionality improvements to better serve the CAE needs of the group
Explore new analysis types and solutions, including topological optimization
Extract Reduced Order Models (ROM) from CFD simulations to speed up the exploratory studies
Minimum Qualifications:
PhD + 3 yrs industry experience
Mechanical or electrical engineering background with strong foundation in CFD and thermal modeling.
Must have expert level skillset related to Ansys electronic desktop and Icepak
Familiarity with Ansys HFSS 3D Layout and SIWave
Experience in transient thermal simulations of assemblies
Familiarity with NX, Comsol, Cadence
Experience in electronics cooling
Familiarity with multi-physics coupled modeling, integrating mechanical, thermal and electrochemical behaviors.
Python or other scripting languages
+ No export compliance restrictions.
Preferred Qualifications:
PhD + 5 yrs relevant experience
Experience in Allegro and electronics layout design
Familiarity with li-ion cells and battery packs
Experience in defining and leading technical development roadmap
Experience in managing project teams

Type: Contract
Duration: 12 months (with a possibility for extension)
Work Location: Cupertino, CA (On-site)
Pay rate: $52.00 - $67.00 (DOE)