Battery Test Engineer - Aeromechanical
Pivotal
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- Pay
- $135K to $155K
- a year
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA
- Work style
- On-site
- Job type
- Full time
- Posted
- Nov 2
- 2 days ago
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About the company
Pivotal
Aviation & aerospace · 51 to 200 employees
What you'll do
- Own the design and execution of battery performance characterization testing
- Conduct thermal-runaway, abuse, environmental, and durability testing
- Translate system risks and requirements into safe, instrumented, repeatable tests
- Convert test results into defensible engineering evidence and actionable design improvements
What you need
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical field.
- Experience conducting or witnessing battery thermal-runaway, propagation, overcharge, external heating, short-circuit, crush, or penetration testing. Experience with environmental chambers, vibration systems, thermal cycling, altitude chambers, shock testing, and high-power battery pack cyclers (e.g., Chroma, etc.) or cell cyclers (e.g., Biologic, Arbin). Experience with electric aircraft, EV, UAV, aerospace, defense, or other safety-critical energy systems. Familiarity with UN 38.3 and relevant battery or aerospace environmental-test standards, with the judgment to confirm applicability before defining a compliance plan. Experience with LabVIEW, Python, MATLAB, Dewesoft, NI hardware, or comparable data-acquisition and analysis environments. Experience with fire-safe test cells, exhaust and gas handling, remote monitoring, blast or fragment protection, and emergency-response coordination. Experience managing outside laboratories and reviewing supplier test evidence.
Key skills
Battery performance characterizationDurability testing
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About the Job
The Battery Engineering team at Pivotal is seeking a hands-on Battery Test Engineer to own the design and execution of battery performance characterization, thermal-runaway, abuse, environmental, and durability testing. This engineer will translate system risks and requirements into safe, instrumented, repeatable tests at the cell and pack levels, then convert test results into defensible engineering evidence and actionable design improvements.