Development Engineer – Major University - Nationwide

Overview

An exciting opportunity exists within a major University’s research team. The project, ‘Xerode’, aims to reduce battery cost, weight, and volume, and to improve performance and reliability. The electrodes in a lithium‑ion battery control many crucial performance characteristics of the final cell. State‑of‑the‑art electrode manufacturing uses a wet‑mixing coating process, which is productive but requires large amounts of solvent and a large factory footprint for drying.

This project seeks to overcome two key limitations of the current process:

• Print dry, formulated electrode directly onto a moving current collector.
• Provide positional and compositional printing control for advanced, customer‑driven designed electrodes.

The Development Engineer will develop a working prototype using off‑the‑shelf dry printing process and apply it to battery production through design, manufacture, characterisation, and data science.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Materials Science, Chemical or Manufacturing Engineering (or closely related discipline).

• 5+ years of experience in the xerography industry in a technical capacity (development engineering, etc.), with knowledge of toner systems, toner physics, formulations and production methods.

• Ability to design, build or modify xerography printing equipment.