BMS Hardware Engineer

Zeno is seeking a BMS Hardware Engineer to design, develop, and validate the Battery Management System hardware for our next-generation electric motorcycles.

Location : Bengaluru – Work from Office (5 days a week)

Start Date : Immediate

About Zeno

An unprecedented energy transition has begun. To meet 2040 net zero goals, over 2 billion electric two-wheelers (motorcycles) must be sold and $11 trillion in fuel consumption replaced. Zeno is building a tech platform to electrify this two-wheeler market, currently responsible for more than 4% of the world’s GHG emissions. Our mission is to accelerate the energy transition and democratize the benefits across Africa, India, and Latin America. With a focus on East Africa as a starting point, Zeno is building a new energy ecosystem with ground-up development of a fundamentally better electric motorcycle and associated battery swap network to drive a better experience for our customers.

The Role

Zeno is seeking a BMS Hardware Engineer to design, develop, and validate the Battery Management System hardware for our next-generation electric motorcycles. This role requires strong expertise in power electronics, analog and digital circuit design, and safety-critical automotive hardware development. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure Zeno’s battery systems are safe, reliable, and optimized for performance and cost.

What You’ll Do

Own the end-to-end design and development of BMS hardware including schematics, PCB design, and component selection.

Design analog and digital circuits for cell monitoring, balancing, current / voltage sensing, and thermal management.

Develop power supply and protection circuits including buck-boost converters, LDOs, and isolation designs.

Ensure compliance with automotive safety and reliability standards (ISO 26262, AIS156, AIS004, AIS038).

Collaborate with suppliers and manufacturing partners for component selection, PCB fabrication, and assembly validation.

Conduct hardware bring-up, debugging, and validation testing for BMS boards.

Draft test plans and work closely with firmware engineers to validate hardware–software integration.

Prepare and manage BOMs, ensuring cost optimization without compromising safety and quality.

Support DFMEA, DFM, DFA, and design reviews to ensure robust hardware development.

Drive certification and homologation testing with external agencies and labs.

What You Bring

5–8 years of experience in hardware design, with at least 3 years in battery management systems or EV power electronics.

Strong understanding of lithium-ion battery fundamentals and cell chemistry implications on BMS design.

Hands-on experience with high-voltage hardware design, isolation principles, and safety-critical circuits.

Proficiency in schematic and PCB design tools such as Altium Designer, OrCAD, or equivalent.

Familiarity with communication protocols such as CAN, I2C, SPI, UART.

Experience with compliance testing for automotive and EV standards (AIS156, AIS004, ISO 26262).

Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills in hardware development.

Ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary aligned with experience.

Company-sponsored healthcare plan.

Opportunity to design core safety-critical hardware for a next-generation EV platform.

Join a world-class team of engineers and innovators driving the trillion-dollar transition of two-wheelers to electric.