At Relectrify, we're on a mission to engineer the future of battery energy storage. We are building a disruptive platform that dramatically reduces the cost of storage by unlocking significantly more energy from every battery cell.  We want to see a world abundant with clean energy and believe we will make a meaningful contribution. 

Our core values fuel and motivate our work: 

1. Prioritise what matters most: We strive to work with clear objectives and understand why they are the right goals to pursue. 
2. Think critically: We base our decisions on informed, open-minded evaluations, not on hierarchy or gut feelings. 
3. Be decisive: We prioritise action and continuously move forward, adapting as new data becomes available. 
4. Quality and elegance in everything: We put in the effort to distil complexity and make things as clear and impactful as possible. 
5. Collaborate or fail: We seek to work with those who excel and recognise that partnerships are essential to our success. 
6. Get jobs done: We focus on the core task – the job to be done – and we aren’t content until we’ve achieved the desired outcome. 

We embrace diverse experiences to fuel our collective success, ensuring everyone can do their best work. 

If you are looking to make a positive impact in the world of renewable energy by advancing battery technology, come join us. Even if you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply — you might just be the perfect fit for our team. 

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About the Role

Location: The position offers the flexibility of hybrid work between your home and our Melbourne office.

Team Background: This is a newly created position within our Innovation team who are focused on driving research and development projects as well as supporting the broader engineering team to help solve challenges and develop innovative solutions for our global customers.

Who we’re looking for: An individual who has held leadership positions within high-growth battery technology environments across the globe. They will have a deep understanding of battery energy storage in both mobile and stationary applications and be experienced in working with large-scale energy storage, as well as the thermal analysis and design of cooling systems for battery packs.

Working within an ambitious team, the ideal candidate will have strong experience in strategic planning, people management, managing patent portfolios, and will have previously provided meaningful contributions to investor relations and fundraising processes.

What you’ll be doing: 

• Delivering power electronics systems through R&D stage gates
• Developing of power and control circuits, cooling, insulation, EMI management, control and fault management
• Prioritising and scheduling activities in power electronics development
• Testing, debugging and evaluating the performance of power electronic systems
• Contributing to Relectrify’s Intellectual property portfolio and providing recommendations towards the technology roadmap
• Actively contributing to risk mitigation in the safety of people, schedule and product development
• Contributing to investor relationships, providing technical summaries and presentations

Requirements

Must-have experience: 

Applicants must have full working rights in Australia and be willing to undergo pre-employment background checks (i.e. working rights, criminal history, and employment references). 

• Masters/PhD in electrical/electronic engineering
• 5+ years of industry experience in battery energy storage for mobile and stationary applications
• Experience in the application of battery science in large scale energy storage
• Experience in thermal analysis and design of cooling systems for battery packs
• Experience in the management of patent portfolios
• Demonstrated leadership in high-growth startup companies
• Demonstrated contribution to the formation of business plans and investor fundraising

Benefits

Why Relectrify? 

Our benefits are designed to support and enhance your work-life harmony: 

• Market-competitive salary and benefits 
• Ownership opportunity as part of the Employee Share Option Plan 
• Advancement opportunities for leadership and management due to rapid scale-up trajectory 
• Paid time off and holidays 
• Gender-neutral paid parental, personal/carer’s leave of absence 
• Hybrid flexible work approach 
• Purchased leave scheme 
• Salary sacrifice for superannuation 
• Education reimbursement 
• No-cost commuting  
• Free snacks and (actually good!) coffee in the Melbourne office 
• Team events and monthly socials 

Relectrify is committed to providing inclusive experiences. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and identities, including: race, ethnicity, age, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, or disability. Discrimination based on these or any other social identities is not tolerated. 

Note to recruitment agencies: Relectrify does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Relectrify does not pay placement fees for candidates submitted by any agency other than its approved partners.