Senior Reliability Engineer Power EV Charging Hardware

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer for High-Power EV Charging Hardware in Golden, CO. This full-time position involves improving the reliability of electric vehicle charging systems by designing solutions and collaborating with researchers. The role focuses on addressing interoperability challenges and enhancing charging infrastructure resilience. Candidates should have a relevant PhD and at least four years of experience.
Senior Reliability Engineer - High-Power EV Charging Hardware

Pay $93,100.00 - $ / year

Employment type:

Full-Time
Job Description
• Req#: R10879
Posting Title

Senior Reliability Engineer - High-Power EV Charging Hardware
Location

CO - Golden
Position Type

Regular
Hours Per Week

40
Working at NREL

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. From day one at NREL, you’ll connect with coworkers driven by the same mission to save the planet. By joining an organization that values a supportive, inclusive, and flexible work environment, you’ll have the opportunity to engage through our eight employee resource groups, numerous employee-driven clubs, and learning and professional development classes.

NREL supports inclusive, diverse, and unbiased hiring practices that promote creativity and innovation. By collaborating with organizations that focus on diverse talent pools, reaching out to underrepresented demographics, and providing an inclusive application and interview process, our Talent Acquisition team aims to hear all voices equally. We strive to attract a highly diverse workforce and create a culture where every employee feels welcomed and respected and they can be their authentic selves.
Job Description

Working within the Center for Integrated Mobility Sciences in the Advanced Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure Group, this position will help the Nation improve the reliability of electric vehicle charging. The group develops unique solutions that identify, evaluate, and resolve interoperability and reliability challenges of charging electric vehicles. The successful candidate will explore electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) and electric vehicle charging reliability at our unique Electric Vehicle Research Infrastructure (EVRI) laboratory in the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF).

As we strive to make EV charging as seamless as conventional refueling, your efforts will create new opportunities and solve critical challenges for electrification of vehicles to move goods and people across the country.

The successful candidate will design and develop solutions that support a robust and resilient charging infrastructure that will integrate the power grid and transportation sectors. The solutions will be developed in broad collaboration with researchers at NREL and National Laboratory teams as part of the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. This effort will require unique insights and experiences of the candidate to develop necessary data, knowledge, and approaches to demonstrate improvement in the reliability of charging hardware through laboratory and in-field evaluation.

Today’s DC high-power charging infrastructure faces considerable growth with many distinct EVSE manufacturers, EV manufacturers, and charging network operators innovating to develop a broad electric vehicle charging ecosystem. The objective of this position is to identify best practices for the design, root-cause analysis, and maintenance of our Nation’s charging infrastructure.
Basic Qualifications

For Researcher IV Level: Relevant PhD and 4 or more years of experience, or relevant Master's Degree and 7 or more years of experience, or relevant Bachelor's Degree and 9 or more years of experience.

For Researcher III Level: Relevant PhD, or relevant Master's Degree and 3 or more years of experience, or relevant Bachelor's Degree and 5 or more years of experience.
• Must meet educational requirements prior to employment start date.
Additional Required Qualifications
• Experience with design, manufacturing, and/or deployment of outdoor rated electronics used in communications, control, and/or power conversion.
• Familiarity with AC.
• Excellence in the ability and interest to work in the laboratory and design experiments and evaluation platforms, but also to accomplish project management tasks and function successfully in a team environment through written and verbal communication.
Preferred Qualifications

Preferred candidates will have knowledge of and…