Exponent Energy

Rapid EV charging hardware and packs

Module Lead - Technical Product Development

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

You have taken at least one hardware product from concept through production stabilisation and stayed with it long enough to see it fail in the field and fix it.
You have strong engineering fundamentals and first-principles thinking to identify and resolve risks and make trade-off decisions.
You have a strong analytical mindset, reason from data, and drive data-based decisions.
You are focused on the product and understand its customer, what customers pay for, and what they might switch to.
You are hands-on and have experience on the production line, with suppliers, and in the field.
You have held a decision with conviction and changed strategy when evidence called for it.
You can lead and coordinate people who do not report to you.
You are comfortable with ambiguity and building things without an established playbook.
You have 5–10 years of experience building hardware products that have reached customers; exposure to the electric vehicle ecosystem is a bonus, not a requirement.
You demonstrate high ownership of work, bias toward action, quality of work, a problem-solving approach, dissatisfaction with mediocre work, and resilience after failure.

Responsibilities

Own product development end-to-end by leading a cross-functional team to design, validate, and manufacture a product, taking it from the first prototype to a thousand units in the field.
Define problem statements and their importance, prioritize which problems to solve, set the approach—design, process, manufacturing, or supplier—and bring the team to a solution.
Ensure the right people are assigned to problems and that the chosen approach determines ownership.
Drive design and gate reviews, and set validation that proves the product performs for customers.
Make customer outcomes the priority in trade-offs, including uptime, cost per kilometre, range, charge time, service turnaround, and vehicle performance.
Identify risks across engineering, process, operations, and service, and own their mitigation through closure.
Own the product cost target and drive design-to-cost and should-cost analysis through the product cycle.
Own the module budget through product development, including research and development, homologation, testing, and tooling.
Close the loop by feeding field failures back into design.

Desired Qualifications

Exposure to the electric vehicle ecosystem.

Module lead - (Technical Product Development)

Exponent Energy · Bengaluru, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-08-26

Workplace: on_site

Department: Product & Engineering

Description

You'll be working with the product and engineering team.

This team runs on coffee with an infectious passion to build products that have never been built before. Our Flexible Energy Stack consists of the e^pack (battery pack) and e^pump (charging station) which together unlock 15-minute rapid charging.

Our philosophy: Break. Believe. Build.

There's no playbook for disruption. The only way to create a radical future is to continuously break, believe and build. You have to BREAK stuff, assumptions and the thumb rule. You have to BELIEVE in the process, in the team and through failures. You have to BUILD fast & passionately and build to simplify.

Job description

All product development at Exponent is delivered by cross-functional teams : internally referred to as squads. Each squad owns a target in cost, quality and timeline, and is led by a Module Lead.

The Module Lead is the single point of product ownership at the squad. You hold the trade-off calls: when cost, timeline and quality pull against each other. You own the outcome.

What you'll do

Own product development end-to-end : lead a cross-functional team to design, validate and manufacture, and take the product from the first prototype to a thousand units in the field
Define the problem statements and why it matters, prioritise which ones get solved first, then set the angle of attack towards resolution : design, process, manufacturing or supplier, and converge the team on a solution
Ensure the right people are on the problem and the angle of attack picks the owner
Drive design and gate reviews, and set the validation that proves the product performs for the customer
Make the customer outcome the northstar. Every trade-off comes back to what the driver, OEM or passenger experiences: uptime, cost per km, range, charge time, service turnaround and vehicle performance
Identify risk early across engineering, process, operations and service, and own mitigation to closure
Own the product cost target : drive design-to-cost and should-cost analysis through the product cycle
Own the module budget through the product development : R&D, homologation, testing, tooling
Close the loop from field failure back to design

What we're looking for

You've taken at least one hardware product from concept through production stabilisation, and stayed with it long enough to see it fail in the field and fix it
Strong engineering fundamentals and first-principles thinking: to identify risk, resolve it, and take the trade-off calls
Strong analytical mindset. You reason from data and drive data based decisions.
Obsessed with the product, not just the deliverable. You know who your customer is, what they're paying for, and what they'd switch to
You get hands on. You've been on the line, at the supplier, in the field
You've held a decision with conviction, and changed the strategy when the evidence turned
You lead and coordinate people who don't report to you
Comfortable with ambiguity, building things that don't have a playbook
5-10 years. Built hardware products that have gone into customer hands. Exposure to the EV ecosystem is a bonus, not a requirement

What matters

High ownership of work
Bias towards Action
Quality of work
Approach towards problem-solving
Dissatisfaction towards mediocre work
Resilient attitude to bounce back after failing

About us

Exponent simplifies energy for EVs.

Co-founded by Arun Vinayak (Ather Energy's Founding Partner & Former Chief Product Officer) and Sanjay Byalal (Former hardware strategic sourcing and cell strategy lead, Ather and Former Supply Chain Lead, HUL), Exponent focuses on solving two sides of the energy problem by building the e^pump (charging station) and e^pack (battery pack) which together unlock 15-min rapid charging.

The 200+ strong team of passionate builders have a ton of EV experience and are currently looking for more builders to join one of the best EV teams in India to build & scale Exponent.

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About the Company

Exponent Energy

Rapid EV charging hardware and packs

Exponent Energy provides rapid charging for electric vehicles by integrating a specialized battery pack (e^pack), a charging station (e^pump), and a charging connector (e^plug). It works by equipping vehicles with the e^pack and using the e^pump/e^plug for a full charge in about 15 minutes, while building a network of its own charging stations starting in Bangalore. The company differentiates itself by delivering both the battery technology and the charging infrastructure, and by targeting commercial vehicles to minimize downtime. Its goal is to create a nationwide rapid-charging ecosystem in India that lowers downtime for fleets and grows through OEM partnerships and an expanding charging network.

Company size: 201-500
Company stage: Late Stage VC
Total funding: $65.5M
Headquarters: Bengaluru, India
Founded: 2020

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