Exponent Energy Benefits Overview

Lead strategic sourcing for plastics, elastomers, rubber compounds, and molded components. Identify and evaluate suppliers, conduct technical and commercial assessments, analyze costs, negotiate pricing and tooling, and develop commodity strategies. Collaborate with engineering, quality, manufacturing, and design teams on material selection and new product introductions. Manage supplier quality, compliance, risk mitigation, sustainability, RFQs, onboarding, contracts, performance tracking, and corrective actions.

Develops should-cost models and target prices for new and existing components, analyzing materials, manufacturing processes, tooling, labor, overhead, freight, and supplier quotations. Interprets drawings and specifications, maintains costing databases, estimates tooling, validates supplier processes and capacities, supports negotiations and price reviews, and drives value engineering, design-to-cost, make-versus-buy, and cost-reduction initiatives across automotive and EV components.

Develop and maintain Hardware-in-the-Loop test rigs for battery and charger management systems. Create plant models, automate firmware testing with Python, integrate tests into CI pipelines, and execute functional, boundary, fault-injection, timing, and regression scenarios. Validate BMS and CMS behavior, CAN communication, diagnostics, bootloaders, and OTA updates. Track requirements coverage, report defects, verify fixes, and publish test results while collaborating closely with firmware developers.