R&D Technician

Nanoramic Laboratories is an innovative, high-tech start-up company tasked with making state-of-the-art advancements in the Energy Storage Sectors. As an organization, we place an emphasis on maintaining a strong company culture that promotes employee engagement, wellness, and personal and professional development. We have a system of values designed to instill trust in employees and empower all team members to share ideas and opinions. By giving our employees the power to introduce new concepts, we enable our major projects to be built from the ground up, rather than from the top down.

At Nanoramic, continuous learning and education will be an important part of your job. We invest in regular education days and build out customized development roadmaps for every employee. This allows employees to freely collaborate with their managers to build out a custom map tailored to their individual interests. We are a company of smart, talented individuals who work hard, but also understand and respect work/life balance. As part of this mentality, we share a common belief that family comes first. Benefits such as flexible scheduling and a company-wide holiday from December 24 to January 1 ensure our employees can put their best foot forward in their personal lives, as well as their professional lives.

If you are self-motivated, eager to learn new things, and excited by a good challenge, you will fit into the Nanoramic Team. For more information about our company culture, visit workatnanoramic.com!

Nanoramic seeks to hire R&D Technician. The focus of this job is on producing high-quality, detailed work, and precise, consistent work output is essential. The R&D Technician will receive structured step-by-step training and positive, supportive coaching from both management and peers. This job will consist of repetitive job routines and procedures, and experience will be gained while on the job. Consistent and detailed work will be based on standards that are clearly communicated. We will provide a job environment that promotes steady, methodical work output so that job routines can be completed on time and error-free. This position is designed to develop a valued technical expert who can deliver quality work on a consistent basis. The ideal candidate for this role does not need previous experience with electrodes or coating but must be open to learning new concepts and processes.

Job Responsibilities:

• Assist Engineers with hands-on experiments/work, including but not limited to:
  • Prepare electrode slurry with specified recipe requested by engineers, record materials and quantities used
  • Check the quality of the slurry based on instructions, report the results to relevant engineers
  • Clean the mixer after using
  • Coat the electrode, and adjust the coating gap based on mass loading requirements
  • Clean the slot die coater parts after using
  • Notify engineers of anything unusual that happens during mixing/coating
  • Calendar the electrode to target density, report anything abnormal to the engineers
  • Punch the electrodes and clear the edge with appropriate solvents
  • Dry the electrodes in a vacuum oven
  • Obey work area safety, cleanliness, and organization rules.

Experience:

• Relevant industry/academic battery work experience, or
• Demonstrated experience in technology companies
• Bachelor's degree preferred
• 0-3+ years of hands-on work in the technical field
• Capable of working in low humidity environment, such as a dry room (< -50 oC dew point)

We offer a competitive compensation package that is based on candidate experience in combination with a thorough market data analysis. If you have the legal right to work in the US, we include in our employment offer a range of benefits including 401k company match, BCBS health insurance, HSA or FSA benefits, vision insurance, dental insurance, disability, and life insurance, and 15 vacation/sick days throughout the year. In addition to regular PTO, our entire organization takes 11 national holidays and a company holiday period from December 24th to January 1st each year.

Nanoramic in the US is currently requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated unless there are religious or medical accommodations that are agreed upon. Please note any new hires will be asked if they are vaccinated, and/or mandated to become vaccinated prior to being offered a position. The company is happy to consider accommodation requests for new hires, as needed.

Nanoramic is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.