Battery Innovation Engineer
No salary listed
Mid
Cluses, France
HybridHybrid work; telework is available according to Group agreements.
Electrical EngineeringPower Systems Engineering
About the job
Requirements
- Training in electronics.
- In-depth knowledge of energy-storage technologies, including lithium-ion, lithium iron phosphate, and emerging battery generations; electrochemical phenomena; aging mechanisms; performance; safety; and applicable regulations.
- Ability to model, analyze, and explain battery-system behavior to guide technology choices.
- Ability to define battery-solution architecture, specify expected performance, build validation plans, and interpret test results.
- Knowledge of characterization methods and performance, lifetime, robustness, and safety testing.
- Ability to turn technological innovations into robust industrial solutions while accounting for manufacturing, quality, cost, supply, regulation, and product-support constraints.
- Understanding of suppliers and technology maturation through market launch.
- Ability to monitor battery-related technological, regulatory, and competitive developments, analyze patents, identify relevant innovations, and propose technology directions aligned with the business roadmap.
- Ability to guide technical decisions, share knowledge, and coordinate multidisciplinary teams without direct hierarchical authority.
- Ability to collaborate with electronics, software, quality, procurement, marketing, laboratories, and external partners.
- Ability to make technically and economically balanced decisions under uncertainty, considering performance, safety, cost, timing, industrial robustness, and project risk; make reasoned recommendations to inform management decisions.
- Fluent English.
Responsibilities
- Manage partnerships with startups, laboratories, and schools by extending the external network, exchanging with partners, managing nondisclosure agreements, and tracking work.
- Recommend appropriate technology choices for future products and contribute to innovation by drafting BIP documents, reviewing patents, and promoting ideas internally.
- Maintain knowledge of the state of the art in batteries and related theoretical principles.
- Anticipate technological, regulatory, and market developments in electrochemical energy storage through conferences, thesis and patent reviews, test equipment, manufacturer developments, new market participants, and competitor-product analysis; assess applicability of new technologies within Somfy.
- Provide operational support to teams on supplier audits, quality, production-life issues, procurement, safety, self-discharge simulations, incoming tests, and accumulator qualification.
- Contribute to the sizing, definition, and specification of lithium batteries.
- Define and conduct electrical and thermal tests to evaluate new technologies or support internal teams.
- Share expertise, facilitate skills activities, participate in the COP solar, provide internal training, develop and share the battery expertise roadmap, improve test facilities, and write standards, guides, and templates.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience designing chargers, power converters, and PCM.
- Prior experience overseeing lithium battery qualification.
About the company
SOMFY Group designs and manufactures motors, controls, and connected systems for openings and closures in homes and buildings. Its products automate shutters, blinds, curtains, gates, garage doors, and other access points, combining mechanical movement with electronic controls. The group serves manufacturers, installers, building professionals, and household users through an international network of brands, production sites, and distribution operations. Its connected-home offering lets occupants coordinate equipment, adjust living conditions, and manage access or security from digital interfaces. Founded in 1969, SOMFY Group is headquartered in Cluses, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Cluses, France
Founded
1969
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