Controls and Electrical Engineer

About Us

We are Sila, a next-generation battery materials company. Our mission is to power the world’s transition to clean energy. To create this future, our team is building a better lithium-ion battery from the inside out today. We engineer and manufacture ground-breaking battery materials that significantly increase the energy density of batteries, while reducing their size and weight. The result? Smaller more powerful batteries that can unlock innovation in consumer devices and accelerate the mass adoption of electric cars to eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels. We're tackling one of the biggest challenges of our time every day, and together we're redefining what's possible. Are you ready to be a part of a team committed to changing the world?

Who You Are

You are a self-starter, experienced, capable Controls and Electrical Engineer with an aptitude for learning new things and taking complex projects across the finish line. You will be a key member of the Controls team, contributing to machine control software, instrumentation, and programming. You have excellent communication skills to harmoniously collaborate with a wide range of skill sets: from scientists to technicians during the deploy stage, to out-of-house service providers across big, complicated interfaces during the build stage.

Responsibilities and Duties  

• Maintain, improve and deploy new machine control code, instrumentation, and electrical subsystems for production units.
• Work collaboratively with other teams to design and improve electrical power and communication systems for the production units across the entire facility.
• Contribute to and improve internally-developed software libraries that are used across the company, from research to production-scale units.
• Gather feedback from end-users of your work and distill into actionable modifications. Iterate.
• Support 24 hour operation in a running chemical plant.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements 

• Ideally 5-7 years experience in directly OR related field experience. 
• Experience deploying code on systems that interact with the physical world.
• Ability to write Structured Text and familiarity with other IEC 61131-3 languages, Siemens environment preferred.
• Strong fundamental understanding of field-deployed electronics, sensors, and motion components.
• Implementation of industrial Fieldbus communication protocols (EtherCAT, Profinet, EthernetIP, Modbus, etc.).
• Familiarity with industrial electrical design, including: wiring diagrams, industrial network architecture, control panel design, power distribution, NFPA 70 (NEC), 79, and 70E arc flash and protocols for process automation. Experience with unique and challenging industrial electrical safety requirements.