Cell Performance Engineer

About Automotive Cells Company - ACC

**Join us and be a pioneer for a green transport revolution.**

**Automotive Cells Company (ACC) is one of Europe’s newest and most exciting high-tech companies. Backed by Saft-Total, Stellantis-Opel and Mercedes-Benz,** ACC is set to **power the future of the automotive industry** by innovating in battery technology.

We aim to produce sustainable, affordable, high-capacity, longer-life batteries as a** cleaner alternative to current energy sources**. We create an R&D center and new state-of-the art facility in France (New Aquitaine), with gigafactories to be built in Hauts de France, Germany and Italy.

We need a range of **skilled and agile people** to bring our vision to life, especially in the areas of industrialization, mechanical design, testing/prototyping and any other function of a new-born company. If you’re looking to take your career further than you imagined, if you’re passionate about creating cleaner transport, we’d like to hear from you.

**Accelerating sustainable mobility for all.**

**Job description**:
The Cell Performance Engineer will develop performance models of the different cell generations gen 3a, gen 3b, gen 4a and gen 4b. He/she will also be in charge of monitoring the test in relation with the test team, in order to correlate his/her models.

He/she will use Simulink and other SW environments. He/she will be in close interaction with Thermal Model Engineer and Cell Modeling Engineer dedicated to cell management. He/she will design the specific technics, for example to extract calibration data. He will develop tests to support ageing models development. He/she will have to present results of his studies internally and to customers. He/she will manage his simulation environment.

As a Cell Performance Engineer, you should be familiar with the following tasks:

- Perform Simulink performance analyses, build model, propose cell design rules.
- Calibrate the models with data from tests.
- Analyze cell performance, characterization and durability tests.
- Participate to team activity within the Cell Management Modelization group
- Propose new concepts and materials to improve various aspects of an EV cell at chemistry level, relevant with the company roadmap and objectives.
- Lead and manage internal and external projects, contracts, while collaborating with internal teams (R&D,, Projects, Simulation colleagues,).
- Lead and manage collaborations with suppliers, customers and strategic partners.
- Contribution in the company roadmap.
- Be aware of and analyses solutions from competitors.
- Be up to date to the state of the art on its topic of expertise.

**Profile**:
**_ Know how_**
- Basic physical phenomenon understanding and modelling (thermal, electrical)
- Good programming skills
- Excellent understanding of the Li-ion and solid-state technology
- Excellent understanding of current technological locks and limits
- Manufacturing processes of Li-ion cell
- Knowledge on various analytical methods commonly used in the field of Li-ion battery

**_ Experience_**
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in similar job
- Automotive or battery manufacturer is a plus
- International experience (China, Japan, Korea, Germany, USA) in R&D and/or Production for Li-ion battery

**_ Qualification_**
- PhD in Electrochemistry/Automatics/Material Science
- Fluent in English

**_Key behaviours_**
- Analytical and synthetical skills
- organization and time-management skills
- customer focused
- initiative
- result and performance motivated
- creativity, inventiveness
- team spirit
- autonomous
- good communication and social skills

**_ Some extra skills which make the difference_**
- Data mining
- programming
- lab conception
- materials synthesis/manufacturing
- problem solving methods (8D, )
- statistics
- modelling
- project management
- French, any other languages