Staff Battery Engineer
WHOOP
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead quality control initiatives for current product lines, ensuring conformance to technical standards, safety regulations, and industry best practices
- Qualify and evaluate new suppliers to ensure they meet WHOOP’s quality, performance, safety, and regulatory standards
- Conduct field quality assessments and collaborate with field service teams to monitor and address battery-related issues
- Develop, audit, and document detailed test plans for battery systems and components, ensuring comprehensive coverage for field performance, durability, and safety
- Maintain a deep understanding of relevant regulatory certifications and testing requirements (e.g., UL, CE, IEC) to ensure product compliance
- Develop and execute verification, validation, and integration strategies for battery systems.
- Conduct and participate in system level reviews, DFMEA, and risk assessments, focusing on field reliability, battery performance and regulatory compliance
- Manage the battery subsystem team
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Mechanical, electrical engineering, systems engineering, or related field (Masters preferred)
- 7+ years of experience in quality control, failure analysis, or sustaining engineering, particularly in battery-powered devices (experience in consumer electronics or wearables preferred)
- Strong understanding of Lithium Ion Cell design and battery chemistry
- Strong knowledge of regulatory certifications and testing requirements (e.g., UL, CE, IEC) for battery systems, and experience certifying products to these standards
- Expertise in design verification, validation, and testing for battery systems
- Proficiency in writing technical reports and documenting field quality findings, supplier assessments, regulatory compliance, and test evaluations
- Strong communication skills and proven ability to communicate battery related topics in cross-functional settings
- Technical mentorship experience (management experience preferred)
- Familiarity with basic scripting, data engineering and visualization using python or other relevant tools (programming knowledge preferred)
- Experience engaging with battery suppliers and evaluating different battery technologies