Senior Director of Battery Electrochemistry and Analytics

Fluence

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Houston, TX, USA, United States

Posted on: 2025-01-21

Category: energy

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Senior

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Fluence is the leading global energy storage technology and services company, created and backed by Siemens and AES, two industry powerhouses and pioneers in energy storage. Fluence unites the scale, experience, breadth, and financial backing of the two most experienced icons in energy storage.

Our mission is to create a more sustainable future by transforming the way we power our world. Energy storage is critical to this transformation, yet today the market is fragmented and customers face the challenge of finding a trusted technology partner amidst conflicting technical claims, inexperienced vendors and installers, and new market entrants with limited power sector knowledge.

Fluence brings the proven technology solutions and services that overcome the commercial and regulatory barriers that stand in the way of modernizing our energy networks. We are the partner that can deliver at a global scale with the most experienced and knowledgeable team in the world.

About Fluence: Fluence (Nasdaq: FLNC) is a global market leader delivering intelligent energy storage and optimization software for renewables and storage. Our solutions and operational services are helping to create a more resilient grid and unlock the full potential of renewable portfolios. With gigawatts of successful implementations across nearly 50 markets, we are transforming the way we power our world for a more sustainable future. For more information, please visit fluenceenergy.com.

OUR CULTURE AND VALUES

We are guided by our passion to transform the way we power our world. Achieving our goals requires creativity, diversity of ideas and backgrounds, and building trust to effect change and move with speed.

We are Leading

Fluence currently has thousands of MW of energy storage projects operated or awarded worldwide in addition to the thousands of MW of projects managed by our trading platform—and we are growing every day.

We are Responsible

Fluence is defined by its unwavering commitment to safety, quality, and integrity.

We are Agile

We achieve our goals and meet our customer’s needs by cultivating curiosity, adaptability, and self-reflection in our teams.

We are Fun

We value the diversity in thought and experience of our coworkers and customers. Through honest, forthcoming, and respectful communications we work to ensure that Fluence is an inclusive and welcoming environment for all.

In this role, you will be leading the Battery Electrochemistry and Battery Analytics teams. You will be creating and executing strategies that allow Fluence to integrate cutting-edge chemistries earlier and successfully.

Fluence IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and fully subscribes to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity to ensure that all applicants and employees are considered for hire, promotion, and job status without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital or familial status.

Responsibilities include:

Deliver the objectives from Product Management on-time with excellence

Understand current battery chemistry capabilities as well as analytical tools needed to better integrate and understand these chemistries

Find or create the most cutting-edge tools for better understanding of cell electrochemistry and associated analytical models

Anticipate new battery chemistries developing a technical position on the benefits, risks and implementation of these chemistries. Understand the analytical tools needed to integrate and utilize these chemistries successfully

Understand the competitive landscape for analytics and data management.

Determine strategies and partnerships to further Fluence’ capabilities.

Create and oversee advanced testing and manufacturing plans that allow Fluence to understand characteristics of the cell faster in the product lifecycle

Work with Purchasing partners to assess supplier engineering/manufacturing capability

Ability to collaborate with teams outside of Engineering to reach Fluence overriding goals

Travel as needed up to 25%

What you will bring to Fluence:

M.S. in Engineering (PhD preferred)

10+ years in the development and testing of electrochemistry and/or battery analytical modeling

Extensive knowledge of cell electrochemistry

Extensive knowledge of cell analytical modeling

Extensive knowledge of cell manufacturing processes and how these processes affect cell data and quality metrics

Experience with staffing projects – especially where highly ambiguous or involving new technology

Experience developing a positive culture with a high performing, fun team

Experience with managing supplier development, especially related to advanced chemistry

Experience creating complex cell characterization setups (life, thermal, etc.)

Experience with handling and analysis of large data sets

Strong technical communication skills

Experience leading teams or projects where scope is large and ambiguous

Passion for batteries, sharing know-how, and learning from others

Fluence

1010

Full time

Fluence

1010

Full time

Energy