Job Description

Role: Battery Design Engineer
Location: Irvine, CA (This role will start out remote then report to the Irvine office when Rivian returns to the office.)
Duration: 6 Months

This is what you’ll do:

• Packaging design for lithium-ion battery cells
• Electronics packaging
• Electrical busbar design
• Thermal management of electrical components
• Plastic part design
• Bent/stamped part design
• Design for automotive manufacturing processes
• Interface with CAE and Validation teams for design validation
• DRE activities as required

This is what you’ll need:

• Familiarity with lithium ion cell chemistries and form factors
• Injection molding design experience
• Bent/stamped part design experience
• Understanding of electrical systems and basic circuit analysis
• Working knowledge of Joule heating analysis
• Strong understanding of heat transfer, especially with fluids (thermal stack up, coolant loops, gasket design, etc.)
• Familiarity with automotive powertrain requirements
• Familiarity with automotive testing and validation process
• SolidWorks and/or CATIA V6 experience
• FEA experience preferred
• 5+ years industry experience or 3+ years with Masters Degree

Comments for Suppliers:

• This role will start out remote then report to the Irvine office when Rivian returns to the office.

Knowledge of Catia V5 (V6 preferred)

FEA knowledge- know what questions to ask and what the answers should sound like.

Candidates MUST have a bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical preferred)

Parts we need Engineering Design are plastic injection molding and busbars and stamping and drawings.