Jobs at Sila Nanotechnologies

Coordinates recruiting activities, including interview scheduling, candidate communication, ATS maintenance, job postings, hiring events, career fairs, and administrative support for the Talent Team. Partners with hiring managers and Talent Acquisition Partners to ensure an efficient, welcoming candidate experience. The role requires regular on-site attendance in Alameda, California and supports recruiting-related projects, sourcing, job descriptions, and training documents.

Designs, deploys, and maintains resilient network infrastructure across data centers and multiple sites. Responsibilities include dynamic routing, SD-WAN, network redundancy, centralized configuration management, monitoring, troubleshooting outages, optimizing performance, supporting security controls, and maintaining uptime and SLAs. The role requires physical equipment management in an onsite manufacturing facility and compliance with PPE and respirator requirements.

Leads global sourcing and commercial strategy for battery cells, supporting new product introduction, supplier qualification, capacity reservation, complex contract negotiations, cost modeling, BOM optimization, and supply-chain resilience. Manages multi-tier material readiness, tariff optimization, dual sourcing, international compliance, and supplier risk mitigation while scaling advanced battery technologies from development through mass production. Requires extensive strategic sourcing experience, lithium-ion manufacturing knowledge, advanced cost-analysis skills, and 25–30% global travel.

Lead a team of engineers in designing and building innovative battery materials and testing equipment, ensuring project success and team development.

Lead product strategy, roadmaps, customer intelligence, competitive analysis, and development priorities for next-generation battery materials. Translate OEM and cell manufacturer requirements into test protocols, success metrics, product capabilities, and commercialization plans. Build business cases, guide cross-functional technical initiatives, and create technical marketing and sales enablement materials that communicate Sila’s battery-material advantages.

Owns end-to-end talent acquisition, including sourcing, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and recruiting strategy. Partners with hiring managers and executives on workforce planning, talent-market intelligence, compensation insights, scorecards, and job descriptions. Leads recruiting process improvements, governance, compliance, service-level agreements, candidate experience, and proactive sourcing initiatives. Engineering recruiting experience is preferred. This role is onsite five days per week in Alameda.

Own end-to-end talent acquisition for high-impact business areas, partnering with hiring managers and senior leaders to define hiring needs, source candidates, conduct structured assessments, and deliver hires. Advise leaders using talent-market, compensation, and competitive insights; develop pipelines; improve recruiting processes, governance, compliance, candidate experience, and operational efficiency. Engineering recruiting experience is preferred.

Lead small capital projects from scope and budgeting through construction, commissioning, and handover at an industrial battery materials facility. Oversee site integration of process units, utilities, equipment, and infrastructure; serve as the field technical authority; verify designs; manage RFIs, submittals, contractors, inspections, testing, compliance, change management, and punch-list resolution. Coordinate closely with engineering, operations, maintenance, safety, quality, vendors, and general contractors in a fully onsite environment.

Develop physics-based and computational models for lithium-ion battery materials and cells. Integrate quantum chemistry, advanced materials characterization, electrochemical testing, and high-performance computing to establish material-property and performance relationships. Build automated Python and Linux-based workflows, translate modeling insights into material and cell design improvements, and guide internal teams and customers on energy and power optimization.

Leads and scales a battery engineering team supporting customer integration and qualification of silicon anode materials. Partners with cell manufacturers and automotive and consumer OEMs to troubleshoot technical challenges, accelerate commercial adoption, align technical and commercial roadmaps, and optimize workflows. Responsibilities include recruiting, mentoring, advocating for team resources, communicating technical trade-offs, and serving as a senior technical advocate with customers and internal stakeholders.

Leads Sila’s Battery Engineering organization across customer application engineering and cell scaling. Oversees cell design transfer, prototyping, OEM qualification, manufacturing integration, contract manufacturer execution, and customer adoption. Partners with Commercial, Business Development, Product, R&D, and Operations to support commercial milestones. Builds organizational structure, workflows, career pathways, and team development while identifying scaling risks and resolving technical bottlenecks.

Leads R&D testing for battery-materials hardware and process development. Designs and executes experiments on laboratory and pilot-scale equipment, analyzes experimental data and system logs, identifies failure modes and root causes, implements solutions, manages test platforms, and communicates findings. The role requires expertise in reactive or thermo-mechanical systems, engineering fundamentals, Python-based data analysis, instrumentation, electronics, sensors, actuators, and measurement systems.

Leads Sila’s talent acquisition strategy, recruiting operations, workforce planning, and end-to-end hiring processes. Manages and develops talent acquisition professionals, partners with leaders and hiring managers, improves recruiting governance and candidate experience, builds employer branding and diverse talent pipelines, and uses analytics, AI, and automation to optimize hiring. Supports headcount planning, recruiting training, compliance, and scalable processes in a high-growth environment.

Leads Sila’s enterprise Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning process for next-generation battery materials. The role owns demand, production, inventory, supply chain, scenario, and financial planning while developing real-time systems, automation, ERP reporting, and value-chain optimization models. Responsibilities include supporting gigafactory scaling, aligning long-term forecasts with commercial and capital plans, and building a high-performing strategic planning team.

Designs, commissions, and starts up large-scale chemical manufacturing processes for next-generation battery materials. Owns critical process units, develops FEED deliverables, modifies control schemes, supports scale-up, optimizes production, and drives plant improvements. Collaborates with engineering, R&D, operations, maintenance, and vendors while managing technical risks, HAZOPs, and change processes. Requires extensive plant or process design experience and frequent travel during startup.

Leads instrumentation and controls engineering for greenfield manufacturing capital projects, including instrument selection, sizing, specification, procurement, installation, commissioning, design reviews, documentation, SIS integration, loop checks, calibration, FAT/SAT, and startup. Collaborates with process, automation, vendors, and external engineering partners while providing technical leadership across construction and commissioning activities.

Lead end-to-end new product introduction for battery cell products, including supplier and manufacturing-partner qualification, cross-functional execution, risk management, FMEA frameworks, safety certification, NPI documentation, and transition to mass production. Manage international partner relationships, coordinate R&D, operations, quality, and product teams, and communicate program risks and progress to executive stakeholders.

Leads complex, multi-year programs integrating battery R&D, manufacturing scale-up, capital projects, and commercial execution. Orchestrates cross-functional workflows, sequencing, governance, executive communication, risk management, financial targets, and strategic decision-making. Ensures novel technologies transfer from research into high-volume manufacturing while maintaining alignment across executives and technical teams.

Architects, designs, and deploys deterministic industrial automation control software and electrical systems for production-scale materials processing equipment. Responsibilities include PLC programming in Structured Text, HMI development, industrial networking, electrical design, functional safety, system integration, troubleshooting, FAT/SAT validation, technical documentation, vendor engagement, and mentoring controls engineers.

The Process Engineer designs and optimizes chemical processes, oversees process performance, troubleshoots issues, ensures safety compliance, and leads engineering projects while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams.