Battery Test Engineer

About ALSO.

We’re ALSO, an electric mobility company originally conceived as a part of Rivian. We’re a passionate team of builders, dreamers, doers and innovators, focused on creating entirely new (not to mention, innovative and delightful) vertically integrated, small EVs designed to meet the global mobility challenges of today and tomorrow. Our mission is to inspire everyone to ride ALSO—replacing many local car, truck and SUV miles with ones on vehicles that are more affordable, more enjoyable and 10-50x more efficient.

We're looking for a Battery Test Engineer (at all levels) to own battery validation strategy, including safety testing, for our vehicle platforms. This is not a test execution role — you'll define what needs to be tested, determine what good looks like, build the capability required to validate it, and help drive the engineering decisions that determine product readiness and reliability.

You should be equally comfortable building prototype hardware, designing tests, developing automated test capability, analyzing test data, performing failure analysis, and making clear engineering judgments about system readiness and safety risks.

What You'll Do

• Define the validation strategy for the system, including what needs to be tested, what good looks like, and what sign-off requires for electromechanical hardware from prototype through production release

• Design test methodologies that reflect real-world operating conditions, manufacturing variation, and long-term product usage, covering performance, reliability, durability, environmental, and abuse testing across mechanical, electrical, and thermal domains

• Build and bring up prototypes and test hardware hands-on, owning instrumentation, debugging, and root-cause analysis when things fail

• Design fixtures, automation tools, and lab infrastructure that improve test quality, repeatability, and speed, building the capability the program needs rather than relying on what already exists

• Analyze test data and translate findings into clear design actions and program risk assessments, not just pass/fail reports

• Partner with Battery Design, BMS, Systems, and Vehicle Engineering to ground validation in real use cases and behaviors

• Coordinate with external test labs, certification agencies, suppliers, and contract manufacturers to support compliance and validation activities

• As an early member of a growing test engineering team, set the standard for rigor, speed, and quality that future test engineers will build on

What You'll Bring