Senior Software Engineer, Energy Storage
Redwood MaterialsSan Francisco, California
Full Time
Posted May 11, 2026
$150k - $238k
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Job Description
A Senior Software Engineer responsible for developing and maintaining the software platform that optimizes control and market participation of battery energy storage systems, including data engineering, simulation, real-time workflows, and energy market integration.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain telemetry pipelines, data stores, and feature ingestion systems for forecasting and optimization
- Design, develop, and operate simulation and training infrastructure platforms for large-scale simulations
- Develop and manage real-time forecast and optimization workflows to support BESS operations
- Support energy market integration through data ingestion and bid management
- Collaborate across teams to ensure the overall system functions effectively
- Write well-tested, monitored software and iteratively improve system quality
Requirements
- B.S. or advanced degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or another discipline, combined with 2-5 years of experience in software engineering.
- Experience with relevant technologies such as Kubernetes, Rust, Python, NATS, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, or SQLite is a plus.
- Strong software design instincts, including thinking in systems, reasoning from first principles, and understanding the real-world challenges of building available, reliable, scalable, and secure distributed systems.
- Excellent collaborator who communicates clearly, listens well, and makes the people around them better.
- Bias toward action, takes initiative, makes progress in ambiguous situations, and doesn’t wait for perfect information.
- Willingness to think and collaborate across team boundaries to ensure the product system works well as a whole.
- Writes well-tested, well-monitored software and iterates on it over time.
- Comfortable using AI tools to accelerate development without letting them erode system design or code quality.
- Support energy market integration, including data ingestion and bid management.
- Design, build, and maintain simulation and training infrastructure platforms for running and orchestrating simulations at scale.
- Contribute to BESS data engineering by building and maintaining telemetry pipelines and stores, and feature ingestion and storage systems for forecasting and optimization.
- Develop and operate real-time forecast and optimization workflows, orchestrating pipelines that drive BESS operations.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range: $150,000 - $237,500 USD
Full-time position
Compensation will be commensurate with experience
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