ABOUT ONE

Our Next Energy is paving the way for an electric future, innovating energy storage solutions that will rapidly expand the world’s ability to access sustainable power.

Get in on the ground floor of a disruptive pre-IPO start-up in one of the most exciting tech verticals: Energy Storage. Our Next Energy (ONE) is developing battery technology that will change daily life for millions of people. And we are looking for a wide variety of innovators to help engineer, test, improve, and manufacture our technology.

Read what the press is saying about us: Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Business Insider, and Auto News. We know that our technology advances solely from the minds and hard work of our team, so our company's foundational culture is one of support, development, and personal fulfillment.

PERKS & BENEFITS

• We offer 100% paid employee benefits packages, competitive time off, and 15 paid holidays including a full week off between Christmas and New Years.
• New parents are encouraged to take the fully-paid four months maternity leave and two months paternity leave. And everyone gets quarterly bonuses in addition to full access to the Employee Stock Option Program.
• This is your opportunity to work with some of the brightest and friendliest minds in tech

Job Summary

Your focus as a Material Scientist will be to develop and scale new cell technologies to radically improve energy density, power, safety, and/or cost vs. conventional EV technologies. Your work will take advantage of ONE’s unique hybrid pack architecture and high power-density DCDC converter, which enable the use of cells with significantly reduced life, power, and temperature requirements, accelerating the time to market of new cell and materials technology. You will lead projects with material suppliers, cell manufacturers, and ONE’s in-house cell and pack development teams to synthesize, formulate, characterize, and scale new materials.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develops improved cell chemistries and/or pack materials optimized for ONE’s pack architectures.
• Works with ONE’s lab operations team to synthesize, formulate, and characterize new materials.
• Evaluates and selects the most promising materials technologies from vendors for use in ONE cells and packs.
• Leads projects with material suppliers to customize materials for ONE’s pack architectures
• Works with our manufacturing team to scale your discovered materials for prototyping, pilot, and production.
• Other duties as assigned

Within 3 months you will:

• Establishes SOPs for material formulation and testing
• Identifies promising material technologies for ONE’s hybrid pack architecture
• Initiates one or more projects for new or optimized materials for ONE’s products
• Becomes familiar with the ONE team and established products

Within 6 months you will:

• Takes ownership of development and scaling of critical materials for ONE’s cell and/or pack programs
• Validates improved materials in large format (>10 Ah) cells and surrogate modules
• Establishes a roadmap and R&D plan for radical improvement in material performance

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience

You should be familiar with all, proficient with many, and expert at some of the following, in no particular order:

• PhD or equivalent experience in chemistry, material science, or related field
• Proven track record in discovery of new materials, synthetic processes, or analytical methods
• Experience in electrochemistry, structural materials, and/or adhesives in a laboratory environment
• Experience with materials development for batteries is a plus
• Strong written/verbal communication and organizational skills
• 2+ years of experience in battery engineering a plus

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t match every requirement posted for this role. No candidate will be a perfect match to our description, so if you are passionate about working on batteries, vehicle electrification, or decarbonizing energy and have similar experience to what we are looking for, we encourage you to apply. Diverse backgrounds and experiences promote innovation, and our goal is to build a team that encompasses a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.