The Battery Cells Research group at the GM China Science Lab is chartered to develop and implement innovative solutions for supporting General Motors’ vision of “zero emission, zero crash and zero congestion”. The prospective candidate will be responsible for inventing new and/or improving existing battery materials technologies; and optimizing existing battery cell design to meet multiple high power cell development that can be integrated into future GM products; and driving commercialization of GM’s innovations to production through close collaborations with partners including both internal GM organizations and external research institutes/universities and suppliers.
Responsibilities:
- Research and develop novel and cutting-edge battery materials (specifically cathode and anode) technologies, and solutions for integrating into cell designs and enabling high-perform, low-cost battery for GM’s next generation electric vehicles.
- Generate innovative ideas, initiate new research areas, and establish technical pathways pertaining to improving battery materials properties through crystalline-phase composition designing/tuning, microstructure engineering/modification and/or manufacturing process optimization.
- Set research direction and independently lead technology development, validation, and transferring to engineering organization within GM and external partners via commercialization by licensing, interface and collaborate with various material and cell suppliers
- Maintain state-of-the-art knowledge in technical areas of responsibility and understand relevance/import