Senior Data Scientist – Solid State Cell

Rivian

10000

United States, California, Palo Alto, United States

Posted on: 2022-04-27

Category: emobility

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Senior

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Doing something different is never easy. It requires courage, optimism and grit. Core to our mission is building a team of adventurous individuals determined to make a positive impact on the world. This means challenging ourselves constantly. Stretching beyond the bounds of conventional thinking. Reframing old problems. Seeking new solutions. And operating comfortably in a space of uncertainty. While our backgrounds are diverse, our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations. Do you like doing the impossible? We’d love to hear from you.

Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract.

As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations.

Role Summary

Reliability is at the core of Electric Adventure Vehicles. As a Reliability Data Scientist, you will play a key role in using data to improve the field safety and reliability performance of Rivian products.

Responsibilities

Join a team developing the next generation of battery cells for Rivian!

Build and deploy a battery data analytics platform with state-of-the art machine learning models to discover and validate new materials, cell designs, processes, and usage patterns
Derive insights from R&D and manufacturing data pipelines with terabytes of data as well as inputs from physics-based models
Develop data processing, management and visualization tools to support laboratory experimentation and cell manufacturing

Collaborate with equipment engineers, lab managers, data engineers and others on various teams from Manufacturing, Digital Manufacturing, Automation Controls, IT, MES, and Operations to deliver optimum solutions

Be a key stakeholder in decision making for developing scalable data analytic solutions from R&D level through mass production scale-up
Work with external vendors and internal teams to deliver software, enabling process development and manufacturing
Drive system integration, metric development, ad-hoc analytics, and product traceability efforts

Qualifications

Bachelors/Masters/PhD degree in Physics, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering or similar technical field. Deep background in machine learning methods or similar technical skillsets that relate to data science and analytics is desirable.
4+ years of experience developing software or data products for a materials science or battery manufacturing, semiconductor or closely related application
Strong drive and demonstrable experience in accelerating learning cycles for the development of new battery materials or products with sustainable analytics
Experience with next generation battery cell materials including solid state electrolytes, anodes, and cathodes as well as the key problem statements related to each
Experience in software development in Python, and its major numerical and analytics libraries
Strong cloud-based development experience in AWS
Experience in databases (SQL, noSQL, MongoDB etc.), API, ETL, image filestore design and implementation, Spark etc.
Experience in interfacing with common manufacturing software tools (such as MES, SPC, LIMS etc.), and related analytics software package (such as JMP) is desirable

Experience working with various data types (e.g., sparse, time-series, image, etc.) is critical
Highly data driven; familiar with statistical software and approaches to provide data to make informed decisions
Ability to follow through and make significant progress in a fast pace, demanding, dynamic environment
Critical problem-solving skills: ability to ask the right people, the right questions at the right time in the right way
Detail oriented: ability to become subject matter expert in order to make informed decisions
Curiosity: demonstrate level of interest that enables inventiveness
Execution: demonstrate that follow through is given as much attention as problem solving
Capable of working as a member of a team across several cross functional disciplines, including product design, quality, construction, production, supply chain, controls, external vendors etc.

This is where you’ll work:

Department: Cell Engineering

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Equal Opportunity

Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Rivian is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at [email protected].