Redwood Materials

Redwood Materials

Staff Applications Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States · Staff+ · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$20k-$50kDetected 18 hours ago
Supply ChainMechanical DesignElectrical Engineering

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About the role

  • Advise cross-functional stakeholders on system-level technical tradeoffs affecting deployment and serviceability
  • Deep system-level understanding of BESS or PV systems, including DC and AC electrical architecture and applicable codes (e.g. NEC)

Responsibilities

  • Guide the BESS technical roadmap by identifying and prioritizing design changes that reduce installed cost, install time, and service burden
  • Drive new product and design improvements in partnership with mechanical, electrical, and firmware engineers
  • Develop and execute test plans with test engineering to validate the installability and serviceability of products
  • Develop installation and service procedures, tooling, and equipment in partnership with EPC and service teams
  • The position serves as the technical bridge between Redwood's BESS product design team and the deployment, construction, and service teams who install and maintain its products in the field.
  • Embedded with product design, the role translates field experience into design requirements and helps drive the team's technical roadmap toward products that are cheaper and easier to deploy and service.
  • Represent deployment, construction, and service needs within the product design team, translating field feedback into clear design requirements

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in industrial battery storage or solar installation, design, or deployment
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently, set priorities, and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority
  • Ability to travel up to 25% of the time, including to active construction sites
  • Success requires deep system-level technical understanding combined with practical knowledge of how installers and service technicians actually work.
  • If you have additional privacy-related questions, please contact us at privacy@redwoodmaterials.com.

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering preferred, or equivalent experience
  • Experience as a licensed or journeyman electrician is a plus

Skills

  • Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
  • Actual compensation may vary based on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and skills.

Compensation

  • $167,500 - $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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