Abuse Test Engineer, Energy Storage
Redwood MaterialsMcCarran, Nevada
Full Time
Posted April 10, 2026
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Job Description
An Abuse Test Engineer at Redwood Materials is responsible for designing, executing, and analyzing safety tests that simulate extreme conditions and misuse scenarios on battery products to ensure their robustness and safety in real-world situations.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, execute, and analyze tests simulating extreme conditions and misuse scenarios to ensure product safety
- Identify potential failure modes and intentionally abuse electromechanical and electrochemical systems to stress those failure modes
- Help define and build test infrastructure for efficient, safe testing with thorough documentation
- Use failure mechanism knowledge to assist in designing products that are intrinsically robust to abuse
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
- Strong understanding of physics and the physics of failure
- Proven experience with abuse tests, specifically UL9540a and related thermal propagation testing
- Proficiency in data analysis tools and software such as MATLAB, Minitab, or Python
- Proven experience designing robust, fast-setup data acquisition rigs, including temperature sensors and actuation devices such as heaters and remote knife switches
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Willingness to perform tests that simulate extreme conditions and misuse scenarios, including short circuit, overvoltage, overheat, overcharge, and forced thermal propagation, in a controlled, well-instrumented, well-documented environment
Benefits & Perks
Compensation will be commensurate with experience
Full-time position
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