Senior Scientist, Battery Research

Company Summary

Flagship Labs 97 Inc. (FL97) is a privately held, early-stage technology company pioneering the application of artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the scientific method. FL97 is backed by Flagship Pioneering, which brings the courage, long-term vision, and resources needed to realize unreasonable results. Join our mission-driven team and contribute to the future of science.

Our Physical Sciences effort is developing a novel AI and data-driven approach to materials discovery and development to accelerate the transition to a sustainable economy.

At FL97, we are uniquely cross-functional and collaborative. We are actively reimagining the way teams work together and communicate. Therefore, we seek individuals with an inclusive mindset and a diversity of thought. Our teams thrive in unstructured and creative environments. All voices are heard because we know that experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way.

If this sounds like an environment you’d love to work in, even if you only have some of the experience listed below, please apply.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement strategies to interrogate, model, and control interface interactions among battery components, spanning a variety of battery chemistries and architectures
• Design and implement multi-modal diagnostics that enable quantitative and interpretable assessments of battery state of health
• Implement standard, and when warranted develop new, accelerated test protocols to quantify battery cycling lifetime
• Work with the automation team to establish parallel and rapid-serial operation of batteries and their diagnostic probes to co-optimize data throughput and data quality
• Work with the machine learning team to build predictive models that incorporate physical, chemical, and electrochemical knowledge of battery structure and operation
• Design and execute workflows for deep characterization of exemplar batteries to elucidate the chemical underpinnings of failure and/or performance optimization
• Design data processing, data interpretation, and quality control algorithms and collaborate with the computational team to manage the implementation of these algorithms
• Analyze, report, and present findings of experiments to the FL97 research team

Qualifications

• Hands-on and direct experience working with battery assembly and stress testing
• Experience with processes that give rise to battery failure for a variety of battery architectures
• Experience with automation of battery testing
• Experience with multiple operando or in situ battery probes
• PhD in Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or related field
• Strong self-starter and independent thinker, with strong attention to detail
• Demonstrated industry experience or academic achievement, as evidenced by publications in quality journals
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of conveying technical information in a clear and thorough manner
• Eager to work with highly skilled and dynamic teams in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and technical setting

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with battery manufacturing processes and formation cycling
• Experience with models for early failure detection
• Experience with workflow automation
• Experience with Multiphysics modelling of battery systems
• Experience with ML integration in battery workflows

Location: Cambridge, MA

More About Flagship Pioneering

Flagship Pioneering is a company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than $90 billion in aggregate value. Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.  Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at