Posting Title
Postdoctoral Researcher - Battery Safety Multi-Physics Modeler.
Location
CO - Golden.
Position Type
Postdoc (Fixed Term).
Hours Per Week
40.
Job Description
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado is the nation's primary laboratory for research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.
NREL's Energy Conversion and Storage Systems Center has a postdoctoral research position available. The selected candidate will be responsible for integrating NREL’s battery modeling framework into commercial battery simulation software and performing simulation-based analysis to investigate performance and safety of lithium-ion batteries for electric-drive vehicles as part of the DOE Vehicle Technologies Electrochemical Energy Storage program. The postdoctoral researcher will also support parameter identification and simulation validation by performing experiments. This position will support R&D conducted in-house and externally by NREL researchers and University and industry participants.
Job duties include, but not limited to:
Integrating NREL’s battery modeling framework into commercial battery simulation software and performing simulation-based analysis to investigate safety, performance, and life of lithium-ion batteries for electric-drive vehicles.
Work with NREL researchers to enhance NREL’s Multi-Scale Multi-Dimensional (MSMD) battery model bridging particle-, electrode-, cell-, and pack-scale physics
Integrate battery model into commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD), chemical engineering and heat transfer codes
Improve safety of li-ion battery units with simulation-based analysis
Modify existing models to run using generalized solvers and design experiments and analyze data to validate model predictions
Perform component-level and cell-level safety testing and extract modeling parameters
Document work in detailed technical memos, laboratory notebooks, milestone reports, and journal articles and present at technical conferences
Required Education, Experience, and Skills
Ph.D. in relevant chemistry, electrochemistry, mechanical, chemical engineering or related discipline
Experience in thermal modeling and simulation of reactive flows, chemical, and electrochemical energy storage devices or systems
Experience with 3D multi-physics modeling using ANSYS/Fluent
Extensive hands-on coding experience in C, C++, Python and/or Fortran
Experience using numerical solver packages such as CANTERA, SUNDIALS, NumPy, FENICS or LAPACK
Experience with running jobs on a parallel platform
.
Basic Qualifications
Must be a recent PhD graduate within the last three years..
Additional Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Demonstrated research capability to solve challenging problems.
Familiarity with commercial CFD and FEA software packages such as Fluent, ANSYS, STAR-CCM+, and COMSOL.
Previous research or practical experience proposing, formulating and solving physics-based models of multi-scale reaction-transport systems such as lithium-ion batteries. Experience with numerical discretization techniques.
Experience designing and running laboratory experiments.
Excellent interpersonal, communication, writing and documentation skills. Demonstrated team work, creativity, innovation, and adaptability. Good publication record.
.
Annual Salary Range (based on full-time 40 hours per week)
Annual Salary Range: $68,000 - $112,200
Offers will typically be made in the bottom half of the listed range. NREL takes into consideration a candidate’s education, training, and experience, as well as the position's work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. In compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.
Benefits Summary
Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; short-term disability insurance*; pension benefits*; 403(b) Employee Savings Plan with employer match*; life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance; personal time off (PTO) and sick leave; and paid holidays. NREL employees may be eligible for, but are not guaranteed, performance-, merit-, and achievement- based awards that include a monetary component. Some positions may be eligible for relocation expense reimbursement.
*Based on eligibility rules
Submission Guidelines
Please note that in order to be considered an applicant for any position at NREL you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified. Applications are not kept on file for future positions. Please include a cover letter and resume with each position application.
.
EEO Policy
NREL is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard basis of age (40 and over), color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, national origin/ancestry, race, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding), sexual orientation, and any other applicable status protected by federal, state, or local laws.
EEO is the Law|Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination |Reasonable Accommodations
E-Verifywww.dhs.gov/E-Verify|For information about right to work, click here for English orhere for Spanish.
E-Verify is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This business uses E-Verify in its hiring practices to achieve a lawful workforce.
