Sr Applications Engineer

Title: Senior Applications Engineer

QuantumScape is on a mission to transform energy storage with solid-state lithium-metal battery technology. The company’s next-generation batteries are designed to enable greater energy density, faster charging and enhanced safety to support the transition away from legacy energy sources toward a lower carbon future.

What we need: You will utilize your extensive experience and understanding of lithium-ion cell technology and architecture, materials, and components to collaborate with a multidisciplinary team and be accountable for aspects of customer information management.

What you''ll do:

Coordinate with internal cell R&D teams and cell manufacturing teams to create customer plans, track, and maintain cell specifications and roadmaps, release schedules, program milestones and deliverables, etc.

Communicate technical customer information to internal stakeholders.

Coordinate and deliver technical presentations to customers.

Conducts internal meetings, calls, follow-ups and other communications with stakeholders and management throughout the business project development and implementation stages to ensure deliverables to customers.

Provide timely responses and project reports to internal teams and customers.

Skills you'll need:

Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills.

A constant risk management mindset.

Ability to create a sense of community amongst members of the project teams.

Good knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring, and controlling programs.

Conflict resolution skills.

Masters +3 years of industry experience or PhD in materials or chemistry-related area with professional experience in customer and vendor environments.

Extensive experience and understanding of lithium-ion cell technology and architecture, materials and components and ideally experience in solid-state battery technology.

Application of scientific programming (e.g., Python) and statistical methods to analyze large datasets

Possess outstanding communication skills both verbal and written form. These are vital because the position is cross-functional in nature and demands frequent interactions and deliberations with other departments, customers.