Senior Applications Engineer

Summary

QuantumScape is on a mission to transform energy storage with solid-state lithium-metal battery technology designed to enable greater energy density, faster charging, and enhanced safety. The Senior Applications Engineer will leverage lithium-ion cell technology expertise to manage customer information, coordinate customer plans and technical deliverables, communicate with internal stakeholders, and support customer presentations and project reporting.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with internal cell R&D teams and cell manufacturing teams to create customer plans, track, and maintain cell specifications and roadmaps, release schedules, program milestones and deliverables, etc
• Communicate technical customer information to internal stakeholders
• Coordinate and deliver technical presentations to customers
• Conducts internal meetings, calls, follow-ups and other communications with stakeholders and management throughout the business project development and implementation stages to ensure deliverables to customers
• Provide timely responses and project reports to internal teams and customers

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills
• A constant risk management mindset
• Ability to create a sense of community amongst members of the project teams
• Good knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring, and controlling programs
• Conflict resolution skills
• Masters +3 years of industry experience or PhD in materials or chemistry-related area with professional experience in customer and vendor environments
• Extensive experience and understanding of lithium-ion cell technology and architecture, materials and components and ideally experience in solid-state battery technology
• Application of scientific programming (e.g., Python) and statistical methods to analyze large datasets
• Possess outstanding communication skills both verbal and written form. These are vital because the position is cross-functional in nature and demands frequent interactions and deliberations with other departments, customers
• This position is required to work onsite 4 days per week to meet the minimum essential duties and requirements of this position.  As an on-site R&D and manufacturing operations organization, in-person face to face interaction is essential to building authentic relationships, trust, teamwork, and collaboration

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills
• A constant risk management mindset
• Ability to create a sense of community amongst members of the project teams
• Good knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring, and controlling programs
• Conflict resolution skills
• Masters +3 years of industry experience or PhD in materials or chemistry-related area with professional experience in customer and vendor environments
• Extensive experience and understanding of lithium-ion cell technology and architecture, materials and components and ideally experience in solid-state battery technology
• Application of scientific programming (e.g., Python) and statistical methods to analyze large datasets
• Possess outstanding communication skills both verbal and written form. These are vital because the position is cross-functional in nature and demands frequent interactions and deliberations with other departments, customers
• This position is required to work onsite 4 days per week to meet the minimum essential duties and requirements of this position.  As an on-site R&D and manufacturing operations organization, in-person face to face interaction is essential to building authentic relationships, trust, teamwork, and collaboration

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Generous RSU/Equity package
• Employee paid health care
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)