Redwood Materials
Staff Electrical Engineer, Energy Storage BoP
San Francisco, California, United States · Staff+ · Full-time
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About the role
- Size and specify major electrical equipment including transformers, circuit breakers, switches, inverters, generators, capacitor banks, reactors, surge arresters, switchgear, current transformers, power cables, and UPS systems
- MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering with specialization in power systems
- Strong foundation in power system analysis including fault calculations, symmetrical components, arc flash calculations, cable sizing, and protective device selection and coordination
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the energy storage team to develop accurate AC and DC system models and study assumptions
- Develop, review, and validate protective relay coordination studies, relay settings, and configuration files
- Create and maintain detailed power system models using ETAP, SKM, and/or EasyPower
- Apply industry standards, codes, and best practices to analysis results and design recommendations (IEEE, ANSI, IEC)
- Prepare clear engineering reports, study summaries, and design documentation for internal and external stakeholders
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with power system protection design, relay selection, settings development, and coordination studies, particularly using SEL protective relays (e.g., SEL-751, SEL-351, SEL-487E, or equivalent).
- 5+ years of experience performing power system analysis, including protection and coordination studies
- Working knowledge of applicable codes and standards including NEC, IEEE, and related industry practices
Nice to have
- Expert proficiency in ETAP is required
- experience with SKM or EasyPower is highly preferred
- Experience with grounding and cable ampacity analysis tools such as CYMCAP and CDEGS is preferred
- Experience with battery energy storage systems (BESS), inverter-based generation, and/or data center electrical systems is a plus
- Familiarity with short circuit and protective relay software tools such as ASPEN and/or CAPE is a plus
- Familiarity with PSCAD and/or PSS/E is a plus
- Familiarity with Python for analysis automation or data processing is a plus
Skills
- Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
- Actual compensation may vary based on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and skills.
Compensation
- $170,000 - $220,000 USD
- Compensation will be commensurate with experience.
Company info
- About Redwood Materials
- Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by
- JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla, on a simple but radical idea:
- the critical minerals powering the energy transition already exist.
- They just need to come back.
- Today Redwood is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America - recovering, refining, and redeploying critical minerals from end-of-life batteries back into the supply chain.
- On the energy side, Redwood has deployed the largest second-life battery project in the world, delivering power to AI data centers in months rather than years using proprietary energy architecture engineered entirely in-house.
- The company is profitable, the market it operates in is projected to grow 20 to 50 times over the next decade, and Redwood is the only company with the supply chain, the technology, and the operational scale to lead it.
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