Job Description:

Key Responsibilities
- Define the reliability roadmap and targets for stack life, degradation rate and availability, grounded in electrochemical first-principles, spearhead Design for Reliability (DfR) and Manufacturability (DfM) across all stack generations.
- Make DFMEA/PFMEA primary tools (not afterthoughts), linking each failure mode to a test or design control, quantify all reliability claims with documented analytical basis.
- Design accelerated life testing (ALT) protocols and oversee the DVP&R; to validate stack components under wide-ranging transient loads, pressures and temperatures.
- Implement stack diagnostics (EIS, Cyclic Voltammetry) to monitor decay and find root causes, while respecting the limits of each characterization tool and avoiding over-interpretation.
- Lead structured technical discussions, own root cause analysis on test data from the Testing Director and translate field feedback into design changes with closed-loop tracking.
- Collaborate with Materials Science on membrane, catalyst,



and GDL resilience and with Manufacturing/Supply Chain on FAI and IQC metrics tied to reliability.
- Establish a regular communication cadence (technical deep-dives, cross-functional syncs, DFMEA/PFMEA reviews), communicate decisions in writing with supporting data and specific timelines—never vague terms like 'soon' or 'ASAP.'
- Own your full domain—roadmap, qualification plans, design changes, timelines, staffing and budgets—with transparency on both wins and setbacks, escalate early with clear context.
- Set realistic timelines with built-in contingency, plan alternate approaches rather than assuming success and document timeline decisions and their reasoning.
- Integrate cost and lifecycle economics into design decisions, including component-level cost breakdowns and sensitivity analyses, so $/reliability metrics carry unit-cost context.

Required Qualifications
- B.Tech/M.Tech in Chemical, Materials Science, Metallurgy, or Electrochemistry wi

📌 Director - Stack Reliability (Bengaluru)
🏢 Ohmium
📍 Bengaluru