Senior Architect - Battery Systems

Job Title: Senior Architect – Battery Systems

Company Overview:

Electrovaya Inc. (NASDAQ: ELVA | TSX: ELVA) is a pioneering leader in the global energy transformation, dedicated to combating climate change by delivering safe, long-lasting lithium-ion batteries for heavy-duty electric vehicles, energy storage, and industrial applications. Leveraging our proprietary Infinity Battery Technology Platform and extensive IP portfolio, we design, develop, and manufacture advanced lithium-ion battery systems with industry-leading safety and longevity.

As we expand our battery platforms and scale complex, multi-disciplinary development programs, Electrovaya is seeking a highly experienced Senior Architect – Battery Systems to provide system-level technical leadership and architectural ownership across our products.

Position Overview:

The Senior Architect – Battery Systems is a senior technical role within the Engineering organization and serves as the system-level architect and technical authority for battery products from concept through production and field deployment.

This role is responsible for defining end-to-end system architecture, governing requirements across mechanical, electrical, firmware, and embedded domains, and ensuring that all subsystems integrate into a safe, reliable, compliant, and manufacturable battery system. The Senior Architect works across teams to resolve complex technical trade-offs and guide engineering execution without relying on direct line authority.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong systems thinking and the ability to lead through influence. Prior experience in Battery Systems and particularly in Stationary Stored Energy Systems, would be highly valued.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Battery System Architecture Ownership

Define and own the overall system architecture for lithium-ion battery systems, including electrical, mechanical, thermal, firmware, and embedded control elements.

Establish architectural principles, system boundaries, interfaces, operating modes, and design trade-offs.

Lead system architecture reviews and ensure alignment across all engineering disciplines.

Act as the final technical authority on system-level design decisions.

2. System Requirements & Decomposition

Develop and maintain system-level requirements based on customer needs, regulatory standards, safety requirements, and internal product strategy.

Decompose and allocate requirements to mechanical, electrical, firmware, and embedded subsystems.

Ensure full bidirectional traceability from system requirements through design, verification, and validation.

Manage system-level change impact assessments throughout the development lifecycle.

3. Cross-Disciplinary Integration Leadership

Serve as the primary technical integrator across mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, manufacturing, and quality teams.

Ensure subsystem designs integrate correctly at the system level, with strong attention to interfaces, failure modes, and operational edge cases.

Identify and resolve system-level integration risks early in the development cycle.

Support prototype builds, system bring-up and troubleshooting activities.

4. Safety, Risk, and Reliability Architecture

Lead system-level safety and risk assessments, including DFMEA, and development of safety concepts.

Define system fault detection, protection strategies, diagnostics, and safe-state behavior.

Ensure compliance with applicable safety, regulatory, and certification requirements.

Partner with validation, quality, and compliance teams to ensure risks are mitigated and verified.

5. Verification, Validation & Compliance Strategy

Define system-level verification and validation strategies, including acceptance criteria and test coverage expectations.

Ensure system behavior is validated across normal, abnormal, and fault conditions.

Review system-level test results and provide architectural disposition on failures and deviations.

Support certification and regulatory activities (UL, IEC, UN38.3, etc.).

6. Production & Lifecycle Support

Support NPI and production transfer by ensuring system architecture is manufacturable, scalable, and supportable.

Provide system-level technical support for production issues, field feedback, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Participate in root-cause analysis of system-level issues and guide corrective actions.

Maintain system architecture and requirements documentation throughout the product lifecycle.

7. Technical Leadership & Mentorship

Mentor engineers across disciplines in systems thinking, architecture best practices, and requirements rigor.

Promote a culture of disciplined engineering, clear technical ownership, and strong cross-functional collaboration.

Contribute to long-term battery platform strategy and technology roadmap development.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Systems Engineering, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• 12+ years of total experience, including 5+ years in system architecture, systems engineering, or senior technical roles on complex electro-mechanical products.
• Strong experience with lithium-ion battery systems, power electronics, embedded systems, or other safety-critical products (automotive, industrial, energy storage, aerospace).
• Demonstrated expertise in system architecture definition, requirements management, and cross-functional technical leadership.
• Working knowledge of embedded firmware, BMS architectures, sensors, communication protocols, and high-voltage systems.
• Experience with system-level risk analysis tools such as DFMEA, HARA, fault tree analysis, and safety concept development.
• Familiarity with relevant standards including UL 2580, UL 1973, IEC 62619, UL 9540A, UN38.3, and ISO 9001.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex system behavior to diverse stakeholders.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives
• Opportunities for growth in advanced battery system architecture and platform leadership
• A technically rigorous environment working on real-world, safety-critical energy systems
• Direct contribution to sustainable transportation and energy transformation

Application Process:

If you are passionate about architecting complex battery systems and leading system-level technical decisions in a cross-disciplinary environment, we invite you to apply for the Senior Architect – Battery Systems position. Please submit your resume and a cover letter highlighting your system architecture experience. We look forward to reviewing your application and

discussing how you can contribute to our team.