Systems Engineer, Energy Storage

About Redwood Materials

Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling—keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving theenergy transition. Founded in 2019, we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.

You will be an early member of a new engineering team, taking a hands‑on role in the design, development, and integration of a new product s position will lead our system engineering effort, helping our mechanical, electrical, and software engineers come together and deliver a cohesive system.

You will define clear requirements, evaluate and down‑select system architectures, and drive the decision throughout the engineering organization. You are a believer and practitioner of model‑driven design and have right‑sized system engineering frameworks for a scrappy, fast‑moving engineering team.

The ideal candidate is highly self‑driven, adaptable to a startup environment, and eager to take on novel technical challenges. If you’re excited about working in a dynamic, fast‑paced setting within a new team at Redwood, we want to hear from you!

If necessary, the job level will be adjusted to suit the applicant’s experience and responsibilities.

• Optimizing architecture to achieve top‑level product metrics such as cost, efficiency, energy/power density and availability.
• Ownership of system‑level performance and functional requirements as well as development of subsystem and component requirements in partnership with design engineers
• Performing or defining system modeling, simulation, and testing to validate system performance against requirements.
• Establishing interface definitions across components and between mechanical, electrical, and software teams.
• Reinforce system safety and reliability through participation in DFMEAs, risk assessments, and hazard analyses to identify and mitigate potential failure modes
• Ensuring compliance with industry (UL) standards

• BS or MS in Mechanical Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field and 5+ years of design engineering or system engineering experience.
• Excellent first‑principles physics understanding of electrical and mechanical systems, power delivery, energy transformation, and basic thermal mechanics.
• Experience with power electronics product development
• Proficiency in system modeling tools (Python or Matlab)
• Experience with requitement management tools (Doors, Jama, etc)
• Demonstrated ability to write clear and testable engineering requirements.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Ability to perform the essential job functions consistent safely and successfully with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
• Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state, and local standards

• Environment, such as office or outdoors.
• Ability to work in challenging working conditions which may include exposure to noise, dust, chemicals, and temperature extremes, while protected by PPE, for extended periods of time.
• Essential physical requirements, such as climbing, standing, stooping, or typing.
• Occasional work weekends, nights, or be on‑call as a regular part of the job.

In accordance with California pay transparency laws, the salary range for this position is listed below. Actual compensation may vary based on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and skills.

$127,500 - $248,500 USD

The position is full‑time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.