EXPERIENCE LEVEL: Mid to Senior (3-8 years)
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ABOUT STRATUM DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY
Stratum Defense Technology LLP is an Indian defence technology company building autonomous systems for the Indian armed forces. We are at the founding stage, developing indigenous autonomous platforms under the Government of India's Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) framework, built to Made in Bharat content goals. Our flagship naval programme is already underway, and we are now standing up our air vertical.
We are headquartered in New Delhi. The people joining now will be present at every significant programme milestone.
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ABOUT THE ROLE
You will own the battery and Battery Management System across all our platforms. The battery is the highest-risk subsystem we build: a fault that is benign in a laboratory is catastrophic in a sealed vehicle, and the pack has to stay safe and predictable across a wide range of load, temperature, and state of charge. Your job is to make a high-energy pack that is safe under fault, accurate in what it reports about itself, and able to deliver from high-power demand down to long dormancy. The discipline is the same across platforms, which is why this is one shared seat.
Full technical scope shared under NDA at first interview stage.
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RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design Battery Management System architecture: cell monitoring, balancing, protection, and fault response
- Own pack design and pack safety, including thermal runaway containment strategy
- Define charge and discharge management across operating modes
- Build state of charge and state of health estimation and validate against test data
- Manage pack thermal behaviour and fault isolation
- Specify cell selection and run cell characterisation
- Define the power interface to the Power Systems engineer who owns the distribution bus
- Support safety qualification and environmental testing of the pack
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ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor of Technology or Master of Technology in Electrical or Electronics Engineering
- Battery Management System design: monitoring, balancing, and protection
- Lithium battery system and pack design
- Pack safety and fault response design
- State of charge and state of health estimation methods
BENEFICIAL EXPERIENCE
- High-energy or high-discharge pack design
- Cell characterisation and battery modelling
- Marine, aerospace, or sealed-enclosure battery systems
- Battery safety standards and certification
- Thermal management of battery packs
- Background with a defence or industrial battery programme
WHAT WE OFFER
Own a whole air vehicle end to end, rare at this career stage
Define the founding platform of an established defence company's new air vertical
Salary Rs 5–10 LPA benchmarked to the Delhi aerospace market
A clear path from concept to flight test, with senior technical mentorship behind you
Pay: ₹500,000.00 - ₹1,000,000.00 per year
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Delhi, Delhi: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Application Question(s):
- Have you designed a Battery Management System, including cell monitoring, balancing,
and protection?
(Yes / No)- Please Explain
- Have you designed a lithium battery pack and defined its safety or fault response?
(Yes / No) - Please Explain
- Have you implemented state of charge or state of health estimation? (Yes, validated
against test data / Yes, in design only / No)
Location:
Work Location: In person
