Battery Modeling Engineer

almost 3 years ago
Full time role
Mountain View, CA, US... more
Mountain View, CA, US... more

Job Description

We believe in a world where less time getting there means more time being there, and that starts with Cora. With over a decade of piloted and autonomous flight experience, we’ve created Cora—our all-electric, self-flying air taxi that will change the future of daily commutes and urban travel. From day one, Cora by Wisk was designed with safety as our first priority using emissions free systems.
We’re working toward a future where you’ll be able to safely soar over traffic and get to where you’re going, faster. Because everyone has somewhere to be, someone to see, and now—a better way to get there.
This position contributes to the development and qualification of novel battery technology for current and future Urban Air Mobility eVTOL projects. You will join a small team of like-minded engineers and scientists on the development of battery performance models, cell degradation models, and BMS algorithms. In this role, you will frequently work cross-functionally with disciplines across Wisk, including Aerodynamics, System Safety, Propulsion, GNC, Product Management, Flight Test, Loads and Autonomy.

Role

  • Work with battery cell engineers to develop scalable models for cell performance and degradation that can be integrated into greater vehicle, infrastructure, and flight physics models.
  • Develop and maintain a cloud-based database of cell performance characteristics and failure analyses.
  • Design, build, test, launch, and support extract-transform-load (ETL) pipelines and data stores for battery data.
  • Design, build, test, launch, and support a suite of analysis and visualization tools that will help the battery team learn more from their data.
  • Develop versatile data ingestion pipelines for diverse sources, such as battery cyclers and vehicles.
  • Ability to motivate and work independently with minimal mentorship required

Qualifications

  • Strong communication and data visualization skills
  • Fluency with computational programming languages, including: MATLAB, Python, and SQL
  • Experience with batch data processing

Nice To Have

  • Experience with deploying data engineering pipelines on cloud platforms such as Google Cloud or AWS
  • Experience with streaming or event-based data processing

Education and Experience

  • B.S. with 5 years’ experience
  • M.S. with 1 year of experience
  • Ph.D with 0 years’ experience

We are located in Mountain View just a couple of hundred feet from Shoreline Lake and its surrounding walking/jogging trails. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision and life insurance (company pays 100% of employee premium), alternative work schedule (9/80), flexible time off, 10 company holidays, a 401(k) plan with 50% company matching (no vesting period), commuter assistance, and education assistance. And on top of all that, we also offer a variety of perks such as free catered lunches, flight lessons, gym membership subsidies, snacks, drinks, fruits, employee referral bonus, charitable giving match, IP bonus program, happy hours and many more.
Wisk Aero provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Wisk Aero abides by applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Wisk Aero is an E-Verify employer.

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