Battery Material Scientist

Wildcat Discoveries is looking for a highly motivated Battery Material Scientist to join our team! This position develops research targets, designs research projects, and analyzes data to achieve research goals on time and on budget.

The work environment is demanding, fast-paced, and incredibly exciting. The ideal candidate should be ready to push their limits, as they join a world-class scientific team dedicated to developing and discovering advanced materials for lithium-ion batteries. At Wildcat, the sky's the limit - with the right attitude, work ethic, and quality of work you can blaze your own trail.

Wildcat Discovery Technologies is a materials R&D company located in San Diego, California. Wildcat is focused on the discovery and development of advanced materials for lithium-ion batteries following two mutually beneficial paths:

• Collaborations & Projects: working with customers to optimize material combinations for improved battery performance
• Product Development: developing proprietary battery materials to commercialize next-generation electrodes and electrolytes

Wildcat scientists use a proprietary state-of-the-art high throughput platform (HTP) to synthesize and test thousands of battery materials, each fully formulated and tested in actual cells. Wildcat collaborates with industry leaders around the world to develop promising new materials for new and promising rechargeable and primary battery technologies. At present, Wildcat is expanding both its technical operations and its sales efforts.

• Participate in project teams to develop new and/or improved energy storage materials.
• Development of research project plans to achieve research goals.
• Monitor status of research experiments in progress
• Analyze experimental data and draw appropriate conclusions
• Lead preparation of research process documentation
• Represent Wildcat as a technical expert in meetings and at industry events
• Effectively utilize chemistry support personnel (Research Associates and Laboratory Technicians) to complete research experiments and data analysis on time and on budget.
• Respect others in the workplace with a professional attitude; be considerate of others with housekeeping, shared equipment; provide a safe working environment for others

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required

• Strong expertise and extensive hands-on experience in inorganic chemistry including synthesis, characterization, and performance evaluation or integration of these materials into cells
• Fluent in electrochemical techniques such as cyclic voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, and common potentiostatic and galvanostatic methods
• Effective time management in a semi-autonomous environment with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Self-motivated and a team player

• Ph.D. in chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, physics or other relevant discipline, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience in lithium-ion batteries

• Generous vacation accrual with 7 day closure at the end of the year
• Full health insurance coverage with low employee out of pocket premiums
• 401k with company paid match
• Annual bonus opportunity
• A company culture that values on positivity, meritocracy, collaboration, openness, and innovation
• Professional growth with exposure to a fast-developing energy storage industry