- Costa Mesa, California, United States
- $142K–$188K per year
- 5+ years
Lead mechanical design, thermal management, and structural analysis of high‑voltage and low‑voltage battery packs and energy storage modules.
Compensation
$142,000—$188,000 USD
Responsibilities
- Perform CAD design of battery modules, enclosures, structural support frames, and thermal management components.
- Perform finite element analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to evaluate structural and thermal systems, including thermal runaway propagation mitigation.
- Generate, review, and release high‑quality engineering drawings and product definitions.
- Collaborate extensively with electrical engineering, battery management systems (BMS) software, and manufacturing teams to integrate cell‑level hardware into system‑level architectures.
- Support prototyping, environmental testing (vibration, shock, thermal cycling, and penetration testing), and manufacturing operations onsite.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or similar
- Nice to have: NX CAD software
- Nice to have: Abaqus FEA software
- Nice to have: design of lithium‑ion battery enclosures
- Nice to have: cell‑to‑pack packaging