About Blue Current
Blue Current is a manufacturer of Solid-state batteries based in Hayward, California. The company strives to provide engineers and designers with the highest performance and safest battery storage for the future energy economy including electric vehicles, consumer, medical and IoT devices. Blue Current leads with science, data and thoughtful IP across the full battery solution stack. Our team is diverse with deep research, implementation, and go-to-market experience. Our facility is located on San Francisco Bay with thousands of acres of wildlife preserve and miles of trails for recreation.
Summary
Are you a data analytics super star? Do you have a passion for sustainability and new energy technologies? Are you hungry for a role with immediate impact across the company and industry? Batteries are at the center of the new energy economy for transportation, grid storage, and consumer devices. Blue Current has developed a complete solid-state battery system that exceeds the best in the industry. The company is funded by several of the most prominent companies in the energy industry and has deep IP portfolio. Now, we need you to help us use our data to drive the next level of innovation in our cell development.
Description
We're collecting lots of data and our scientists and manufacturing teams need easy access to that data through a single pane of glass to design the World’s best batteries. As the leader of data systems you will be focused on building, integrating, and utilizing software tools to analyze large collections of cell performance and meta-data. You will create data pipelines that help bring that data together into a central data platform and do it in such a way that enables everyone at the company to make data-driven decisions easily. Imagine how much more powerful engineers and scientists can be if they can just look at how the data is laid out and make decisions without having to reach out to a data analyst to bring the data together into dashboards for them. This position will offer hands-on, fast paced work on a growing team that has a shared passion to change the energy storage landscape.
Responsibilities
- Develop system architecture for battery analytics data platform
- Integrate data collection and analysis software tools to identify relationships between battery performance with meta data (cell composition, material information, quality control, process parameters, etc.)
- Craft automated analysis scripts to extract key performance indicators from battery test data
- Enable self service use of data platform by scientists and engineers
- Integrate analysis scripts with standard computational packages
- Generate interactive plots and data visualization of battery data
- Understand test standards, battery design, test setup, and key performance indicators
- Build out documentation to enable other engineers to perform customized analyses
- Version control analysis scripts and reports
- Develop and submit intellectual property
Qualifications
- BS in Computer Science, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, or similar field
- 5-10+ years of work experience
- Proficiency in Python, R, C++, and/or other programming languages
- Experience leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) or other cloud platforms for data analytics
- Experience connecting lab instruments and process equipment over a network
- Strong interpersonal and organizational skills and experience working with team members to overcome technical challenges
- Appreciation for and adherence to lab and work safety policies
Preferred Qualifications
- PhD/MS in Computer Science, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, or similar field
- 5-10+ years of work experience in the lithium-ion battery industry
- Prior experience applying programming tools to analyze lithium-ion battery cell performance data
- Experience with database development and data analysis using SQL
- Experience using statistical data analysis software like JMP and Minitab
Blue Current is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and embraces diversity. We believe that our team is strengthened through hiring and retaining employees with diverse backgrounds, skill sets, ideas, and perspectives. We make hiring decisions based on merit and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex or gender (including pregnancy) gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, age, marital, veteran, disability status or any other protected category in accordance with applicable law.
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What We Do
Blue Current manufactures silicon elastic composite solid-state batteries for EVs and non-automotive device applications. Blue Current leads with science, data and thoughtful IP across the full solid-state battery solution stack.
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