Senior Systems Engineer, Energy Storage
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 100000 - 200000
Posted on:
4 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Redwood Materials
Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery reuse and recyclingkeeping critical minerals in circulation and driving theenergy transition. Founded in 2019were 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.
Systems Engineer New Products
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 at Redwood. This 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 youre 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 applicants experience and responsibilities.
Responsibilities will include:
- 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
Desired Qualifications:
- 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.
Physical Requirements:
- 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
Working Conditions:
- 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.
- Occasional travel requirements.
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.
California Pay Range:
$100000 - $200000 USD
The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Data Center Experience
- Disaster Recovery
- VMware
- Computer Networking
- NFS
- Solaris
- Windows
- Virtualization
- Linux
- SAN
- Operating Systems
- Troubleshooting
About Company
Redwood creates a closed-loop, domestic supply chain by recycling and refining lithium-ion batteries and remanufacturing anode and cathode components.
