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Leads R&D testing for battery-materials hardware and process development. Designs and executes experiments on laboratory and pilot-scale equipment, analyzes experimental data and system logs, identifies failure modes and root causes, implements solutions, manages test platforms, and communicates findings. The role requires expertise in reactive or thermo-mechanical systems, engineering fundamentals, Python-based data analysis, instrumentation, electronics, sensors, actuators, and measurement systems.

Leads Sila’s talent acquisition strategy, recruiting operations, workforce planning, and end-to-end hiring processes. Manages and develops talent acquisition professionals, partners with leaders and hiring managers, improves recruiting governance and candidate experience, builds employer branding and diverse talent pipelines, and uses analytics, AI, and automation to optimize hiring. Supports headcount planning, recruiting training, compliance, and scalable processes in a high-growth environment.

Leads Sila’s enterprise Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning process for next-generation battery materials. The role owns demand, production, inventory, supply chain, scenario, and financial planning while developing real-time systems, automation, ERP reporting, and value-chain optimization models. Responsibilities include supporting gigafactory scaling, aligning long-term forecasts with commercial and capital plans, and building a high-performing strategic planning team.

Leads instrumentation and controls engineering for greenfield manufacturing capital projects, including instrument selection, sizing, specification, procurement, installation, commissioning, design reviews, documentation, SIS integration, loop checks, calibration, FAT/SAT, and startup. Collaborates with process, automation, vendors, and external engineering partners while providing technical leadership across construction and commissioning activities.

Lead end-to-end new product introduction for battery cell products, including supplier and manufacturing-partner qualification, cross-functional execution, risk management, FMEA frameworks, safety certification, NPI documentation, and transition to mass production. Manage international partner relationships, coordinate R&D, operations, quality, and product teams, and communicate program risks and progress to executive stakeholders.

Leads complex, multi-year programs integrating battery R&D, manufacturing scale-up, capital projects, and commercial execution. Orchestrates cross-functional workflows, sequencing, governance, executive communication, risk management, financial targets, and strategic decision-making. Ensures novel technologies transfer from research into high-volume manufacturing while maintaining alignment across executives and technical teams.

Architects, designs, and deploys deterministic industrial automation control software and electrical systems for production-scale materials processing equipment. Responsibilities include PLC programming in Structured Text, HMI development, industrial networking, electrical design, functional safety, system integration, troubleshooting, FAT/SAT validation, technical documentation, vendor engagement, and mentoring controls engineers.

Develop bespoke software solutions to enhance battery data management and user interaction. Collaborate with various teams to optimize workflows and ensure data integrity through advanced architecture and visualization.

Lead quality systems and controls across lithium-ion cell production and CM sites. Manage IQC/IPQC/OQC/ORT, drive RCCA/8D, implement SPC and metrology, define PFMEAs and control plans, execute reliability testing, monitor quality metrics and lot disposition, and ensure production-level compliance with battery safety standards. Travel to contract manufacturers in Asia (~30–40%).

Lead mechanical design and development of manufacturing-scale reactor equipment, perform FEA/thermal/fluid analysis, create detailed engineering packages, drive safety-by-design and PSM activities, manage vendor/fabricator coordination and FAT/installation, and mentor junior engineers to ensure manufacturability, reliability, and compliance.