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Location

Redmond, WA | United States

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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 Build engineer to join our battery team. In this role, you will be responsible for demonstrating new battery technology via design and test for current and next generation Low Earth Orbit satellites. You will be developing new processes, fabricating first articles, and scaling these projects up to full scale production. This is a multifaceted and hands on role focused in design, production, and test. The day-to-day is a blend of mechanical, electrical, and software engineering projects. Your expertise will play a crucial role in ensuring the safety, reliability, and performance of our Li-ion battery systems.

A day in the life
• Perform first article build and testing for next generation spacecraft batteries
• Own process development for Battery system production (sub-component assembly, materials selection, build processes, weld schedules)
• Design tooling for R&D builds and scale up to production
• Drive process failure investigations to root cause
• Select, acquire, run, and maintain capital equipment for manufacturing and testing of batteries and sub-components
• Incorporate DFX (design for manufacturing, test, serviceability, etc.) to continuously improve battery design

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, manufacturing, or test for hardware in the field of aerospace, automotive, consumer electronics, or equivalent

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