Staff Battery Engineer

At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance. WHOOP empowers members to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives.

As a Staff Battery Engineer at WHOOP, you will play a key role in ensuring our battery systems' ongoing quality, reliability, and performance in the field. You will collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams, suppliers, and third-party testing labs to sustain our current generation of products, focusing on quality control, failure analysis, design updates, supplier qualification, regulatory compliance, and integrating learnings into advanced development projects.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead quality control initiatives for current product lines, ensuring conformance to technical standards, safety regulations, and industry best practices
• Qualify and evaluate new suppliers to ensure they meet WHOOP’s quality, performance, safety, and regulatory standards
• Conduct field quality assessments and collaborate with field service teams to monitor and address battery-related issues
• Develop, audit, and document detailed test plans for battery systems and components, ensuring comprehensive coverage for field performance, durability, and safety
• Maintain a deep understanding of relevant regulatory certifications and testing requirements (e.g., UL, CE, IEC) to ensure product compliance
• Develop and execute verification, validation, and integration strategies for battery systems.
• Conduct and participate in system level reviews, DFMEA, and risk assessments, focusing on field reliability, battery performance and regulatory compliance
• Manage the battery subsystem team

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Mechanical, electrical engineering, systems engineering, or related field (Masters preferred)
• 7+ years of experience in quality control, failure analysis, or sustaining engineering, particularly in battery-powered devices (experience in consumer electronics or wearables preferred)
• Strong understanding of Lithium Ion Cell design and battery chemistry
• Strong knowledge of regulatory certifications and testing requirements (e.g., UL, CE, IEC) for battery systems, and experience certifying products to these standards
• Expertise in design verification, validation, and testing for battery systems
• Proficiency in writing technical reports and documenting field quality findings, supplier assessments, regulatory compliance, and test evaluations
• Strong communication skills and proven ability to communicate battery related topics in cross-functional settings
• Technical mentorship experience (management experience preferred)
• Familiarity with basic scripting, data engineering and visualization using python or other relevant tools (programming knowledge preferred)
• Experience engaging with battery suppliers and evaluating different battery technologies