{"id":3513007,"url":"https://alion.io/job/cygni-technical-product-lead-telecom-battery-systems","title":"Technical Product Lead – Telecom Battery Systems","company":{"id":3785731,"name":"Cygni","domain":"cygni.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/cygni-2","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Keka","truth_index":null},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Hyderabad, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":518000,"max":null,"currency":"INR","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":5486},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"FMEA","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-30T07:17:30Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-30","last_verified_at":"2026-11-01T00:44:48Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Job Title: Technical Product Lead - Telecom Battery Systems\nLocation: Hyderabad\nJob Type: Full-time | Target experience: 8-12 years\nOwn the product from customer specification to deployment at scale\nAt Cygni Energy, our people take ownership, work closely across functions and turn engineering ideas into products that customers can rely on.\nOur Business: Incubated at IIT Madras, Cygni Energy develops lithium-ion battery and energy storage solutions for mobility, telecom and stationary applications. We work with OEMs, telecom companies and solar EPC players to address practical energy challenges.\nThis Role: You will own the technical lifecycle of Cygni’s telecom battery products, from customer requirements and product definition through testing, qualification, volume production and field performance. You will be the single accountable technical point of contact for customers and internal teams, working with NPD, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sales and Service to close every product issue.\nThe Opportunity: India’s expanding mobile network and 5G rollout create a substantial need for dependable telecom power. India had 5.18 lakh 5G base transceiver stations by December 2025 (DoT/PIB, February 2026). Network expansion, battery replacement and efforts to reduce diesel use create opportunities for reliable lithium-ion systems with better monitoring and lifecycle economics. Your engineering decisions will help customers sustain network uptime while improving their energy infrastructure.\nWhy This Role: Apply your battery design, integration and project-leadership experience to a complete product family. Shape requirements, resolve technical trade-offs with NPD, lead customer qualification and see the product through manufacturing and field deployment. This role offers broader product accountability while keeping you close to engineering.\nProduct Definition and Technical Ownership\nOwn the product specification, roadmap, lifecycle plan and technical risk register; translate customer needs into measurable requirements and acceptance criteria.\nWork with NPD on cell and pack configuration, BMS behaviour, electrical and mechanical interfaces, thermal performance, reliability, cost and manufacturability.\nMaintain a controlled product baseline covering specifications, drawings, BOM, firmware versions and approved variants. Assess changes and obtain required approvals before release.\nTesting Validation and Customer Qualification\nOwn the qualification schedule and requirements-to-test compliance matrix. Coordinate design validation plans, samples, laboratories, test execution, reports and failure closure with NPD and Quality.\nEnsure validation covers agreed capacity, backup duration, charging, cycle life, protection, thermal, environmental, communication and system-integration requirements; identify applicable certification and customer obligations with Quality.\nLead customer demonstrations, witnessed tests, factory acceptance tests and field pilots. Agree protocols and deviations in writing, resolve observations and secure documented product qualification.\nCustomer Technical Interface\nOwn all customer technical product correspondence: specifications, RFQ clarifications, compliance responses, datasheets, test reports, meeting actions and technical approvals.\nRepresent Cygni in technical reviews with telecom operators, tower companies and power-system partners. Make clear commitments backed by internal feasibility and agreed evidence.\nMaintain one action tracker with owners and deadlines; drive cross-functional resolution and timely escalation of technical risks, without leaving customers to coordinate internal departments.\nVolume Production and Lifecycle Performance\nLead readiness reviews with NPD, Quality and Manufacturing; verify approved documentation, end-of-line tests, traceability, pilot-build results and closure of release-critical issues before volume production.\nSupport production ramp-up, supplier changes and field deployments. Lead root-cause reviews and corrective-action closure, including revalidation and customer approval where required.\nUse field data and customer feedback to improve reliability, serviceability and lifecycle cost; coordinate product upgrades, obsolescence and end-of-life transitions.\nPrior experience\nTypically 8-12 years in battery systems, product engineering, applications engineering, technical product management or new product development, with ownership beyond a single component.\nDemonstrated delivery of a product from specification through validation, customer acceptance and production release; able to explain personal decisions and measurable outcomes.\nHands-on lithium-ion battery pack or BMS integration experience. Telecom power exposure is preferred; strong EV or industrial battery engineers with transferable systems knowledge are welcome.\nExperience leading technical discussions with customers and coordinating multidisciplinary engineering, quality, manufacturing and supplier teams.\nProfessional qualifications\nBE/BTech in Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical, Mechatronics or a related engineering discipline. Postgraduate engineering qualifications are welcome; an MBA is not required.\nStrong systems understanding of cells, pack architecture, BMS, protection, thermal design and battery performance across operating conditions.\nAbility to evaluate telecom DC power integration, rectifier/charger compatibility, parallel battery operation, remote monitoring and communication interfaces such as CAN or RS485.\nWorking knowledge of requirements management, DVP&R, DFMEA, engineering change control, root-cause analysis and production-readiness reviews.\nClear, accurate written technical communication and confident customer presentation skills; ability to explain trade-offs and defend decisions with test evidence.\nOwnership, structured problem-solving and the ability to drive closure across teams. Willingness to travel to customer sites, test laboratories and manufacturing locations.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nOn-time customer qualification, complete validation evidence and prompt closure of technical correspondence and customer observations.\nSmooth production ramp-up, controlled product changes, reliable field performance and fewer recurring customer issues.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6288,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-30T08:56:57Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":28,"reasons":["conf:3","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":5486,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/cygni-technical-product-lead-telecom-battery-systems","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/cygni-technical-product-lead-telecom-battery-systems.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-01T03:51:51Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6067,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-02T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3785731},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3785731"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcygni-technical-product-lead-telecom-battery-systems"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcygni-technical-product-lead-telecom-battery-systems"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcygni-technical-product-lead-telecom-battery-systems"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/cygni-technical-product-lead-telecom-battery-systems\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcygni-technical-product-lead-telecom-battery-systems"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3513007}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"cygni.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3513007},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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