Sr Battery Chemist Job

Purpose and Passion • Comprehensive Benefits • Life-Work Integration • Community • Career Growth

At Boston Scientific, you will find a collaborative culture driven by a passion for innovation that keeps us connected on the most essential level. With determination, imagination and a deep caring for human life, we’re solving some of the most important healthcare industry challenges. Together, we’re one global team committed to making a difference in people’s lives around the world. This is a place where you can find a career with meaningful purpose—improving lives through your life’s work.

About the Role

At Boston Scientific, we are dedicated to transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve the health of patients around the world. Our active medical devices are on the forefront of medical science and powered by batteries with proven industry best longevity, putting what’s best for patients at the center of our products. Battery development for implantable medical applications requires the innovation and passion of today’s fast paced battery industry combined with rigor and attention to detail to deliver batteries that meet the demands of future life saving technologies.

We are seeking a battery engineer to join our talented team of engineers and scientists to deliver world class battery solutions for life saving and life enhancing active implantable medical devices.

Role Responsibilities

• Work with a multidisciplinary team in developing innovative battery (cell) designs and processes to power life sustaining and life enhancing implantable medical devices
• Collaborate with the Process Engineering team to transition laboratory-scale designs and production techniques into standardized production processes
• Produce technical reports, specifications
• Advise on materials and material compatibility
• Participate in / Lead efforts to characterize the electrochemical performance, safety, and stability of developmental cell designs
• Conduct failure analysis and postmortem analysis of operated cells and determine cell failure modes and mechanisms that limit cell performance
• Build, test cell prototypes
• Utilize engineering tools and scientific method to organize problems and find solutions
• Use the company’s document and change control system to properly archive technical documentation
• Maintains substantial knowledge of state-of-the-art battery principles, theories, and research
• Contribute to and initiate patent filings
• Occasional travel (<10%)

What We’re Looking For

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S. degree in Chemistry, Material Science, Chemical Engineering or related discipline

• Minimum of 5 years of related battery experience

• Hands on experience with prototype cell assembly, cathode and electrolyte experiments, cell testing techniques

• Design of experiments (DOE) and statistical data analysis
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead small to moderate engineering efforts

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in Chemistry, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering or related discipline and 1-3 years of related battery experience
• Battery active material processing
• Familiarity with material characterization techniques including XRD, SEM/EDS, DSC/TGA, GCMS, FTIR, and BET

About us

As a global medical technology leader for more than 35 years, our mission at Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) is to transform lives through innovative medical solutions that improve the health of patients. If you're looking to truly make a difference to people both around the world and around the corner, there's no better place to make it happen.

Boston Scientific is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Disability, Veteran

Boston Scientific maintains a drug-free workplace. Pursuant to Va. Code 2.2-4312 (2000), Boston Scientific is providing notification that the unlawful manufacture, sale, distribution, dispensation, possession, or use of a controlled substance or marijuana is prohibited in the workplace and that violations will result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.

Requisition ID:475080