Battery Test Engineer, Reliability at Harbinger Motors Inc.

Harbinger Motors is seeking a Battery Test Engineer to join their team in Garden Grove, CA. The Battery Test Engineer will play a crucial role in developing and validating the electrical performance of Harbinger's battery packs. This individual will collaborate closely with other test engineers, as well as product and design release engineers, to ensure the reliability and optimized performance of the battery pack.

Role Involves:

• Working closely with battery test engineers, design engineers, BMS engineers, and system engineers to characterize and validate battery pack behavior through testing.
• Designing and building test setups to determine the reliability of the battery pack and various battery pack components.
• Developing test software for executing and automating test cases using LabVIEW, Arduino, etc.
• Specifying requirements for Design Validation Plan test procedures, including instrumentation, data acquisition, and post processing methods.
• Authoring test cases to validate component performance against requirements.
• Staying on top of test schedules and performing regular functional checks.
• Keeping organized and accurate records of test results.
• Prioritizing safety and organization in the lab.

Requirements:

• Strong experience setting up fixtures and simple and/or complex automation.
• Enjoys building things.
• Previous experience testing EV batteries or other electrical sub-systems.
• Good understanding of how electric vehicle batteries work, general design, and major components.
• Experience developing custom test software with LabVIEW, Arduino, CANalyzer, etc.
• The ideal candidate has experience programming battery cyclers to operate based on logic using CAN messages.
• Previous hands-on experience in a lab is required.
• Comfortable working around high-voltage and using hand tools, fabricating simple wiring projects, and debugging low-voltage test setups.
• Hands-on experience with instrumentation, including thermocouples, pressure transducers, shunts, and oscilloscopes.
• Proficiency using Python or Matlab to analyze large datasets.

What Harbinger Motors offers:

• Comprehensive health coverage.
• Early-stage stock options.
• Flexible PTO.
• Annual vacation stipend.
• Paid lunches and dinners.