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title: 'Battery Pack Architect M/F at Verkor'
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# Battery Pack Architect M/F at Verkor

- **Company:** Verkor
- **Location:** Grenoble, France
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/verkor/94bab301-0d23-48a1-8d6d-06882598abab

## Job description

As a Battery Pack Architect, you are responsible for defining the overall system architecture and ensuring the technical coherence and performance of the battery pack. You drive key design decisions by balancing electrochemical, electrical, thermal, mechanical, and safety constraints to deliver a solution that is safe, high-performing, manufacturable, and cost-effective. You act as a cross-functional technical leader and the main guarantor of the system-level vision.

Main responsibilities :

1. System Architecture Definition

- Define the overall battery pack architecture, including:
- Electrical topology (series/parallel configuration, HV/LV interfaces)
- Mechanical concept (modules integration, pack integration, pack enclosure design)
- Busbar routing
- Thermal architecture
- Ensure consistency between cells, BMS, power electronics, and system-level requirements
- Drive architectural trade-offs considering performance, cost, risk, manufacturability (ergonomic, value chain, process flow chart) and industrial constraints (existing means compatibility)

1. Requirements & Performance Management

- Define and cascade system requirements
- In charge of design justification document as well as its integration into PLM
- Ensure requirements traceability across the system
- Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for the battery pack

1. Multi-Domain System Integration

- Ensure proper integration of all subsystems:
- Cells
- BMS
- Thermal system
- High-voltage components (contactors, fuses, etc.)
- Manage critical interfaces (electrical, thermal, mechanical, communication)
- Guarantee system behavior under all operating conditions (normal and fault cases)

1. Safety & Compliance

- Integrate safety constraints from early design stages:
- Define mitigation strategies (detection, isolation, protection mechanisms)
- Ensure compliance with relevant standards and regulations

1. Technical Leadership & Risk Management

- Identify and manage technical risks across the system
- Drive key trade-offs (cost vs performance vs safety)
- Lead architecture and design reviews
- Support high-level product and technical decisions

Requirements :

- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in battery system architecture, with at least 5 years owning system architecture on complete pack programs.
- An experience with EV OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, or pack integrators is preferred.
- Proven greenfield program experience (building a product from scratch).
- Fluent English mandatory.
- Willingness to travel to customers and suppliers internationally.
- Knowledge of applicable standards: IEC 62619, UN 38.3, GB38031, ECE R100, ISO 26262 fundamentals.
- Required management tools: DOORS, Polarion, or Jama. JIRA or an equivalent for project tracking.
- Proven knowledge in high-voltage battery pack design and development and battery pack mechanical design
- Good understanding in battery pack main characteristics sizing, thermal management, and system-level validation (components to full battery pack)
- Familiarity with the simulation approach and DFMEA
- Functional safety fundamentals (HARA, ASIL allocation)
- Knowledge of CATIA V5/SolidWorks (system & electrical layout), and MATLAB/Simulink (pack performance simulation

## About Verkor

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Verkor designs and manufactures low-carbon lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and stationary storage in Europe.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: Grenoble, France
- **Founded**: July 2020
- **Founders**: Benoit Lemaignan (co-founder and former CEO) and five others from the energy, automotive, and mobility industries

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Battery Manufacturing, Clean Energy, Electric Vehicle Components
- Target customers: B2B (Automotive OEMs, stationary storage providers)
- Mission or purpose statement: To fast-track low-carbon battery production in France, serving the European market, and contribute to a sustainable and sovereign European energy transition.

## Products & Services
For each major offering:
- **Lithium-ion Battery Cells and Modules**: High-performance, low-carbon battery cells and modules for electric vehicles. 16 GWh of cell production capacity per year at the Dunkirk Gigafactory.
- **BIMS Technology® (Battery Intelligent Management System)**: A proprietary digital twin and management system that digitises and optimises battery manufacturing processes using sensors and actuators run by algorithmic logic.
- **DROPS Technology® (Direct Recycling of Production Scrap)**: An automated recycling process that reinserts production scrap back into the manufacturing circuit in real time, minimising waste.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — raised over €2 billion (including debt and equity). Key rounds include a €250 million Series C (announced in 2022), and a €850 million financing package from the French government and European Investment Bank in 2024 for the Dunkirk Gigafactory.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Consortium of players from digital, recycling, and clean-tech industries (specific investors not fully detailed in public sources, but includes French government support via the EIB and France 2030 plan).
- **Growth Signals**: Commissioning of the second production line at the Dunkirk Gigafactory in 2024; first batteries produced entirely on-site at Dunkirk delivered in 2024–2025; headcount growth from 180 in 2022 to over 1,000 employees and projected 1,500 by 2025. Laurent Debrue named President and CEO (effective September 2024).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Low-Carbon Manufacturing**: Proprietary processes and Industry 5.0 digital optimisation (BIMS, DROPS) deliver the most competitive and environmentally virtuous low-carbon batteries on the market.
- **European Sovereignty**: Fully localised European value chain (design, manufacturing, recycling) serves the strategic goal of European energy independence and reduces reliance on Asian battery supply chains.
- **Deep Expertise**: Team of international experts with over 1,200 combined years of battery industry experience.
- **Innovation Centre (VIC)**: A 5,000 sqm state-of-the-art R&D centre and pilot line in Grenoble, including a battery training school (“Ecole de la batterie”).

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities and direction for growth:
    - **Industrial Scale-Up**: Commissioning the second production line at Dunkirk and moving to full-scale, high-volume production.
    - **Digitalisation & Industry 5.0**: Leveraging proprietary BIMS and DROPS technologies to optimise every aspect of manufacturing for cost, quality, and sustainability.
    - **Talent Development**: Scaling the workforce to 1,500 by 2025, with a strong focus on upskilling through the “Ecole de la batterie” training centre.
    - **Partnerships & Supply Chain**: Deepening partnerships with automotive OEMs and securing the entire value chain in Europe.

## Why Work Here
- Culture highlights relevant to job seekers:
    - **Mission-Driven**: Join a company at the forefront of the European energy transition, with a clear and ambitious purpose — manufacturing low-carbon batteries to decarbonise mobility and energy.
    - **Collective Intelligence**: Strong emphasis on teamwork, open innovation, and cross-functional collaboration. Values: commitment, contribution, communication, and team spirit.
    - **Learning & Growth**: Structured mentorship programs (“senior+junior partnerships”), continuous training, and the opportunity to learn from international experts.
    - **Diverse & Multicultural**: 29+ nationalities working together in a highly international environment.
- Remote/hybrid/office policy: Primarily on-site roles at the Grenoble Innovation Centre or Dunkirk Gigafactory. Production roles require working in anhydrous rooms and using PPE. Support functions are also largely office-based.
- Notable perks or engineering culture:
    - Work on state-of-the-art technology (Industry 5.0, digital twins, automation, recycling).
    - Meaningful impact on climate change and European industry.
    - Hands-on experience bringing a Gigafactory from construction to full-scale production.
    - Roles span product design, industrialisation, production, quality, supply chain, and all support functions.

## Sources
1. [verkor.com](https://verkor.com/en/) – Official company website (overview, mission, figures)
2. [verkor.com](https://verkor.com/en/why-join-us/) – Careers culture page
3. [verkor.com](https://verkor.com/en/discover-our-career/) – Career categories and role descriptions
4. [verkor.com](https://verkor.com/en/expertise/) – Technology pillars (BIMS, DROPS, Industry 5.0)
5. [verkor.com](https://verkor.com/en/) – Leadership announcement and Gigafactory details

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