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.

• 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.

ONSITE: This position is required to work onsite 4 days per week to meet the minimum essential duties and requirements of this position. As an on-site R&D and manufacturing operations organization, in-person face to face interaction is essential to building authentic relationships, trust, teamwork, and collaboration.

Compensation & Benefits: Expected salary range for this role is from $103,100 to $157,300 and a final salary will be determined by the candidate’s experience, educational background and internal equity. QuantumScape also offers an annual bonus and a generous RSU/Equity package as part of its compensation plan. In addition, we do offer a tremendous benefits plan including employee paid health care, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), and other benefits.