Principal Cathode Engineer

Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a principal cathode engineer.

In joining us you will play an important part from the very start in developing a new generation of large-scale European battery factories. Northvolt will play an important role in the transformation to a carbon-free society, and this is your opportunity to take part in leading those efforts and help drive us to success.

Key responsibilities include (but are not limited to)

• Contribute to CAM strategy and roadmap as a part of the overall Northvolt cell roadmap

• Coordinate and initiate extensive external R&D collaboration (incl Supervision of MSc and PhD) with top

universities in both Sweden and abroad

• Be a strong technical mentor to young co-workers, incl review skills and development needs

• Build, coordinate and execute internal scientific lectures to the CAM team to spread competence and knowledge to the larger team

• Review of internal R&D and technical reports before publication

• Submit patent applications and other IP within CAM R&D field

• Member of CAM R&D management team

Qualifications/education/experience

• MSc or PhD in Chemical/Material/Electrical Engineering,and Chemistry/Physics

• Preferably 10+ year’s experience in material and/or process R&D within material development, powder development or similar. Valuable with experience from battery materials.

• Demonstrated expertise and success in the development and characterization of materials, preferably battery materials

• Experience from industrialization and scale-up of production processes

• Experience working with international and multi-cultural environments

Specific skills (eg specific programmes, languages, certifications etc)

• Fluent in English (Company language)

• Material development, process development and advanced material characterization

• Team development

• Strong background from technical R&D environment and culture with proven engineering excellence

Please note that candidates considered for employment with Northvolt may be subject to a mandatory background check process.

Please note that any applications submitted via email or direct messaging will not be considered.