Staff Functional Safety Engineer, ESS Compliance
Redwood MaterialsSan Francisco, California
Full Time
Posted October 16, 2025
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Job Description
Redwood Materials is seeking a Functional Safety Engineer to ensure compliance with safety standards and support the development and certification of energy storage systems, focusing on safety principles, hazard analysis, and regulatory requirements in a sustainable battery recycling environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead compliance activities for ESS functional safety standards, including UL 1998, UL 991, and UL 5500.
- Support certification efforts and ensure product development aligns with functional safety requirements.
- Develop safety principles, hazard analyses, safety cases, and test strategies for ESS hardware and software.
- Manage relationships with certification bodies to establish and maintain compliance programs.
- Translate safety standards into actionable requirements for cross-functional teams and provide technical guidance.
- Develop hazard mitigation and validation strategies, and support testing to verify system safety.
- Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and product teams to integrate safety requirements into development cycles.
- Maintain relationships with industry partners and stay updated on evolving safety standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field.
- Strong background in UL 1998, UL 991, and UL 5500 standards.
- Familiarity with international functional safety standards such as IEC 61508, ISO 26262, or ISO 13849 (preferred).
- Experience working with Energy Storage Systems, power electronics, or safety-critical systems.
- Demonstrated ability to apply functional safety methodologies such as hazard analysis, safety cases, and V V planning.
- Experience managing compliance or certification processes with third-party testing certification bodies.
- Ability to translate complex safety standards into actionable requirements for cross-functional teams.
- Provide technical guidance on functional safety practices and address feedback to ensure product design compliance.
- Develop, document, and execute hazard mitigation and validation strategies.
- Support testing and verification activities to ensure system safety performance.
- Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and product design teams to streamline compliance and safety processes for ESS.
- Maintain strong relationships with certification bodies and industry partners to stay ahead of evolving safety requirements.
- Ability to perform the essential job functions safely and successfully in accordance with ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards, including meeting productivity requirements.
- Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards.
- Ability to work in challenging conditions, including exposure to noise, dust, chemicals, and temperature extremes, while protected by PPE, for extended periods.
- Perform essential physical activities such as climbing, standing, stooping, or typing.
- Availability for occasional work on weekends, nights, or on-call responsibilities.
- Willingness to travel occasionally.
- This is a full-time position.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation will be commensurate with experience
Work environment includes office, lab, and manufacturing settings
Ability to work in challenging conditions with PPE
Occasional work on weekends, nights, or on-call responsibilities
Occasional travel may be required
Full-time position
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