Position: Senior Process Engineer
About Imprint energy
Imprint Energy provides trusted, safe, and high-performance zinc batteries in form factors that blend electronics into our lives. We print batteries! And that's possible because we developed a green, stable, safe, and non-toxic zinc battery chemistry. We have had good traction providing a safe, disposable, and label-like power source for logistics smart tags, data loggers, and medical patches, and are making inroads to becoming a de facto green battery chemistry alternative as more product designers and customers demand safer and more sustainable electronic products.
Imprint has received recognition for its thought leadership and accomplishments: MIT Technology Review Innovators under 35, 50 Smartest Companies, and multiple Best Product and Innovation awards. See www.imprintenergy.com; follow us at @imprintenergy and on LinkedIn.
Job Description
You are going to own the most critical processes and equipment in our battery manufacturing pilot line. You know the suppliers and manufacturers of relevant equipment, consumables, and battery materials. You will upgrade and set up new equipment, scale up manufacturing processes, and strongly support technology transfer activities to our external high volume manufacturing partners. You're data-driven based on experiments; and you insist on documenting and codifying practices. Your choices help advance Imprint’s products from novel applications to production in the billions of units per year. You will wear many hats and contribute to all aspects of battery manufacturing, optimization, metrology, automation, and testing. Ideal candidate has a deep understanding of screen and stencil printing, and rich manufacturing and scale-up experience.
Role responsibilities
Develop and continually improve the printing processes for flexible zinc batteries
Create documentation for printing, equipment setup and quality control and facilitate the technology transfer
Design experiments, collect and analyze data to increase manufacturing efficiency and throughput
Manage outside relationships with material suppliers, partners, and joint development efforts
Lead equipment installation and organization of the process flow
REQUIREMENTS
Demonstrated >2 years hands-on experience in ink manufacturing or screen/stencil printing
BS, MS or PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering or related discipline
Experience with quality management systems, statistical process control, process capability analysis and other quality engineering tools
Ability to work well under pressure while managing competing demands and tight deadlines; thrive on finding creative solutions in constrained environments
Experience developing ink or slurry formulations for technical applications
Experience with a wide variety of inks: water and solvent based, UV curable, etc.
Compensation
Salary and equity incentives
Health Insurance
Retirement Plan