Job Title:  Battery Thermal CAE Lithium Engineer

Job Purpose

This role is for an individual who will help design, develop, and test the mechanical components of EnerSys next generation cells. An ideal candidate would have a background in the automotive, aerospace, or energy industries with solid simulation skills and lithium ion cell understanding.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform 3D thermal/CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) analysis simulations at cell level using commercial CAE/CFD software to meet battery development timing.
• Post process and report thermal simulation results to product development teams to guide battery design in support of product development landmarks.
• Analyze and process lab thermal test data from battery physical thermal testing and apply it to correlate CAE models.
• Determine loading and boundary conditions for thermal CAE/CFD models based on lab physical testing conditions.
• Work with testing and battery engineers to specify thermal testing and instrumentation of battery for CAE correlation and physical test reduction.
• Lead CAE-testing interactions and apply CAE thermal tools to support testing teams, test reduction efforts and virtual test signoff.
   

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related
• 5 years proven experience in thermal analysis and 3D thermal / CFD simulation techniques.
• 3+ years proven experience in thermal analysis supporting product development.
• 5+ of Computed Aided Engineering (CAE) software tools for heat transfer analysis, such as StarCCM+ / ANSYS (preferred) / COMSOL (preferred) and CAE model building software tools such as Ansa and Hypermesh.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD degree preferred.
• Working experience in CAD geometry cleanup for CAE, simulation model building and meshing, CAE model setup, model running and post-processing. 
• Strong analytical and good inter-personal skills. Good organizational and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent communication skills
• Great teammate, ability to build relationships and trust within and across team boundaries
• Adept user of Microsoft Office, especially Microsoft Excel
• Analytics background preferred
   

Travel Expectations

• Quarterly international travel for a week at a time.

General Job Requirements