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# Senior Applications Engineer

- **Company:** QuantumScape Corporation
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $103,100.0 - $157,300.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Big Data, Information Management, Python (Programming Language)
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://careers.quantumscape.com/talentcommunity/apply/1426674600/?locale=en_US

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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.


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