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Intern, Battery Test

About Harbinger

Harbiniger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger's best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form, Revolutionary Foundation.

Internship at a Glance:

• Location: Immerse yourself in our innovative culture! This role requires a commitment of 4 days in-office per week at our facility in Garden Grove, CA as well as full-time hours (40 hours a week).
• Duration: 10-11 weeks (May 26 to August 7 OR June 22 to August 28)
• Relocation Support: A $1,000 relocation stipend is available for interns currently residing more than 50 miles from Garden Grove, CA.
• Compensation: Earn an hourly rate of $25-35 USD per hour.

Job Overview

As an intern working with Harbinger's Testing team, you will play an active role in characterizing and validating the vehicle battery and various vehicle components. You will support the testing team by running electrical and thermal performance tests on vehicle battery packs and vehicle components, and learn how to grade pack/component performance based on your test results. You will help support offsite pack safety testing and get a crash course on best practices to test for, and ultimately avoid, full-pack thermal runaway. You will learn how to design instrumentation and test fixture setups that produce the data you are looking for. We have many opportunities depending on your interests to advance your knowledge of EV batteries and components in this rapidly expanding field. This intern is for the summer period, with dates flexible depending on school calendars.

What You'll Do:

• The intern will work side-by-side with the battery test engineer to setup and run a variety of component, module, and pack-level tests. The intern will work side-by-side with the component test engineer to setup and run a variety of component, system, and vehicle-level tests.
• The intern can expect to spend the majority of time in the lab, working to wire and integrate sensors, design and build test setups, and collect/process data.
• The intern will own one/two long-term projects. These projects will be chosen at the start of the internship and can range from setting up and running technical experiments, to test methodology and procedure improvement, to equipment calibration or other lab organization activities.
• Intern will assist with data collection and analysis from tests in-progress and become familiar (or more familiar) with LabVIEW and Python.

Who You Are:

• A student or recent graduate with a Bachelors' in Engineering.
• Experience with automotive components, automotive HVAC experience is a plus. Good understanding of basic principles and relationships between voltage, power, and current as well as those between fluid pressure and flow.
• The ideal candidate is looking forward to a hands-on, lab-work position that implements a learn-by-doing approach. Applicant that enjoys working with their hands, likes building things, and has an uncanny ability to make things work despite the obstacles will do best in this role.
• Previous experience with sensors like thermistors, thermocouples, pressure transducers, and flowmeters.
• Experience modeling with CATIA is a plus, but not required. Similarly, past history using LabVIEW, Python, or National Instruments cDAQ/cRIO including CAN would be useful.