Various positions | QuantumScape | CA, USA

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Manufacturing

Sr. Quality Engineer

QuantumScape is seeking a motivated Sr. Quality Engineer for our Quality Engineering team. You will be playing a vital role in ensuring that clean/dry rooms are compliant with clean room compliance protocols and standards, contributing to particle study and providing short term and long term solutions in mitigation of particle accumulation in the clean room environments, ensuring that documentation are controlled through the document control process, monitoring critical to quality specifications and ensure excursions and/or variations are being addressed through 8D process.

Quality Engineer

QuantumScape is seeking a motivated Quality Engineer for our Quality Engineering team. You will be playing a vital role in ensuring that clean/dry rooms are compliant with clean room compliance protocols and standards, contributing to particle study and providing short term and long term solutions in mitigation of particle accumulation in the clean room environments, ensuring that documentation are controlled through the document control process, monitoring critical to quality specifications and ensure excursions and/or variations are being addressed through 8D process.

Senior Facilities Technician

• Executes daily, monthly, quarterly facilities & equipment inspections/maintenances
• Acts as a contact while on shift for any building issues (climate control, odors, smoke, spills, damage, emergencies, and repairs)
• Supervises contractor performance and works closely with outside vendors and contractors to ensure work is completed according to specifications
• May act as project coordinator for all size projects including large scale repair and new facility projects
• Solicits bids and quotes from vendors
• Monitors and replaces light bulbs in all assigned facilities, as needed
• Makes minor plumbing repairs, as necessary
• Coordinates and assists with departmental and employee moves
• Preforms basic electrical work and resolves when an electrician is required
• Performs maintenance duties as assigned by the facilities manager
• Carries out work orders in a timely manner per our computer maintenance management system
• Monitors the building automation system to ensure all facilities equipment is running without issues
• Works directly with EH&S team to ensure a safe workplace, manage fire life safety systems and hazardous waste programs
• Works with equipment maintenance team on projects regarding Facility and Manufacturing / R&D

Equipment Engineer, Senior Member of Technical Staff

• Drive design, development, and commissioning ramp of complex and custom high speed automated manufacturing equipment, including creation of equipment specifications.
• Tests and validates new designs and equipment.
• Lead the installation, modification, upgrade, and maintenance planning of manufacturing equipment.
• Creating equipment SOP’s and documentation supporting LOTO and preventative maintenance activities.
• Maintain current records on equipment manufacturers’ technical notices, upgrades, and safety issues.
• Establish spare parts list for inventory, research second source options to support equipment engineering requirements.
• Establish CIP (continuous improvement process), programs and solutions for increasing uptime and for equipment problems that affect the manufacturing process.
• Provide technical/engineering support to the equipment maintenance team for repairs and process organizations.
• Work with equipment vendors to ensure tool support is being provided during line down situations.
• Provide troubleshooting support for complex issues and address root cause analysis utilizing 8D and FMEA evaluations.
• Supports WBS and project management skills utilizing MS Office applications.
• Establish a TPM (total preventative maintenance) program for equipment.

Procurement Internship

• Analyze supplier risk assessments and draft risk mitigation options / recommendations for the company
• Conduct market research to assist in new supplier identification – both for long-term purchase needs and upcoming Request for Proposal (RFP) or Request for Quotation (RFQ) events
• Draft an updated contracting process and upload key documents to support contract lifecycle management
• Develop and implement procurement process improvements, coordinating with multiple internal teams to align on expectations, requirements and best practices
• Work on establishing a preferred supplier program, including the development of metrics to assess supplier performance and quality
• Assist the Procurement team with drafting and executing major RFPs and RFQs, including specifications and requirements gathering and pricing / supplier analysis and working in person with leaders to support these activities

General & Administrative

Sr. HR Business Partner

We are seeking an experienced Senior HR Business Partner to join the People Experience team and help our company scale, our managers to lead, and our people to grow. In this role, you will work onsite in San Jose to partner closely with operation leaders to advise, drive strategy, and influence them on topics involving people strategy, engagement and retention, talent development and coaching, organizational design and development to enable employees to do their best work for the Company.

You will work with the People Experience team and act as the voice of the people to collectively identify needs and ensure successful deployment of new engagement and talent initiatives for an overall positive employee experience!

This is a work onsite position that requires the position to work onsite at one of the several company locations in San Jose, CA. Working onsite as an HRBP offers unparalleled visibility and accessibility to employees, fostering trust and open communication while enabling tailored HR solutions. Additionally, onsite presence facilitates seamless collaboration with colleagues, promoting cross-functional teamwork and driving collective success.

Sales & Marketing

Product Management Internship

• We are looking for a candidate to assist in our competitive benchmarking process
• This will span researching the entire electric vehicle landscape to understand the market needs of existing batteries to procuring a number of commercial lithium-ion batteries and leading the in-house effort to test/analyze these batteries electrically (cycle life, usable discharge capacity, DCIR, etc.) and analytically (SEM, EDS, DPA, safety).

Research & Development

Senior Process Engineer, Cathode

We are looking for a Senior Process Engineer to be an integral part of our team, contributing significantly to the advancement of all-solid state battery technology. In this role, you will collaborate closely with equipment suppliers to design and operate tools, fine-tune process variables for optimization, and facilitate the smooth transfer of the stabilized process.

Senior R&D Technician – FIB/SEM

We are looking for a diligent Senior FIB/SEM Technician for our failure analysis, physical characterization, and process development work. Our ideal team member is a skilled, meticulous microscopist, who can work independently and efficiently in large teams, and is capable of driving projects to completion ahead of schedule.

R&D Technician, FIB/SEM

We are looking for a diligent FIB/SEM Technician for our failure analysis, physical characterization, and process development work. Our ideal team member is a skilled, meticulous microscopist, who can work independently and efficiently in large teams, and is capable of driving projects to completion ahead of schedule.

R&D Technician

• In accordance with all safety policies and procedures, you will collaborate with scientists and engineers to support their experiments.
• You will help execute materials processing for R&D experiments.
• You will build ceramic coatings on substrates on R2R coaters and transition them into battery material films using high volume web processing and pouch cells, and QuantumScape proprietary devices per SOPs or with scientists’ oversight.
• You will detail daily experiments and communicate completion status using MS Office applications and an internal website.
• You will notice and give feedback for anomalies or unexpected results.

Principal Manufacturing Engineer

Join us on our mission as we transform energy storage to enable a more sustainable future. We are looking to add a Principal Manufacturing Engineer, Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS) to our Cell Engineering and Process Development team. This individual will be responsible for developing tools and techniques at the cell assembly level to improve the manufacturability of our solid-state lithium-metal batteries. This work includes designing new processes for cell assembly and experimental validation of these new approaches, equipment troubleshooting and issue triage, and tooling design and testing. Experience working with electrochemical energy storage devices such as lithium-based batteries or similar technology is highly desired.