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Controls Engineer, Battery and BMS

Also. · Palo Alto · On-site

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About Also.

Magical + modular micromobility: Discover the electric cargo bike, commuter bike, and trail bike all in one. Move Beyond traditional ebikes with the ALSO TM-B. Backed by Eclipse Ventures.

About the role

Design and develop control algorithms for battery management systems (BMS), including thermal management, charging, and power distribution. Develop and validate physics or data based battery state estimation algorithms (SOC, SOH, SOF).

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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.

ALSO is looking for a Battery Controls Engineer to play a pivotal role in developing battery management system algorithms for our vehicles.

Design and develop control algorithms for battery management systems (BMS), including thermal management, charging, and power distribution.

Develop and validate physics or data based battery state estimation algorithms (SOC, SOH, SOF).

Design and implement control and protection strategies (OV/UV, OC, cell balancing, thermal limits).

Build and validate system models in MATLAB/Simulink/Stateflow for control development and verification.

Generate production-quality embedded code for deployment on microcontrollers.

Support model-based...

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