UPSide needs a battery technologist

The design of UPSide is coming together very nicely. We don’t have a full parts list yet, but we do have a functional diagram of the high-power subsystem most of which can be expanded into a schematic in a pretty straightforward way.

If you want to see what we have, clone the repo, cd to design-docs, make transactions.html, and view that in a browser. Note that the bus message inventory is out of date; don’t pay a lot of attention to it, one of the design premises has changed but I haven’t had time to rewrite that section yet.

We’ve got Eric Baskin, a very experienced power and signals EE, to do the high-power electronics. We’ve got me to do software and systems integration. We’ve got a lot of smart kibitzers to critique and improve the system design, spotting problems the two Eric’s might have missed. It’s all going well and smoothly – except in one key area.

UPSide needs a battery technologist – somebody who really understands all the tradeoffs among battery chemistries, how to spec battery types for different applications, and especially the ins and outs of battery management systems.

Eric Baskin and I are presently a bit out of our depth in this. Given time we could educate ourselves up to the required level, but the fact that that portion of the design is lagging the rest tells me that we ought to recruit somebody who already knows the territory.

Any takers? No money in it, but you get to maybe disrupt the whole UPS market and and certainly work with a bunch of interesting people.