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Location

Redmond, WA | United States

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Job description

DESCRIPTION

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Key job responsibilities
We seek a highly skilled and motivated test design engineer to join our battery team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing test plans, equipment, and automation for the acceptance and qualification test campaigns for the battery packs used in current and next generation Low Earth Orbit satellites. Your expertise in testing will play a crucial role in ensuring the safety, reliability, and performance of our Li-ion battery systems.

A day in the life
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary power team to define Satellite Battery Pack test requirements
• Design and operate novel test equipment (fixtures, chambers, test, GSE, automation) to perform comprehensive battery testing and scale into full rate production
• Author and execute comprehensive test plans to screen, validate, and qualify new Li-ion battery packs
• Analyze test data to gather information about battery packs and share findings with subject matter experts across stakeholder teams
• Maintain detailed documentation of test procedures, results, and observations
• Ensure adherence to safety protocols and guidelines during testing and handling of Li-ion batteries

About the team
The battery design organization is a product-oriented team that has been empowered to be entrepreneurial and nimble. The team owns the battery product life cycle from cell selection, to electrical interconnection, to pack structural design and test. We work with partner teams to define requirements, execute test campaigns to verify and validate our designs, and scale from new product introduction into full rate manufacturing.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Redmond, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, manufacturing engineering or a related field
- 3+ years of experience in the design and operation of test equipment for hardware in the field of aerospace, automotive, consumer electronics, or equivalent

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