Systems Engineer, Energy Storage
Redwood MaterialsSan Francisco, California
Full Time
Posted April 17, 2026
$128k - $249k
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Job Description
The Systems Engineer, Energy Storage at Redwood Materials is responsible for designing, developing, and integrating energy storage systems, ensuring performance, safety, and compliance while collaborating across mechanical, electrical, and software teams in a fast-paced startup environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and integrate energy storage systems.
- Define system requirements and evaluate system architectures.
- Perform system modeling, simulation, and testing to validate performance.
- Establish interface definitions across mechanical, electrical, and software components.
- Ensure system safety and reliability through risk assessments and hazard analyses.
- Optimize system architecture to meet product metrics such as cost, efficiency, and energy density.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Mechanical Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
- 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 requirement management tools Doors, Jama, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to write clear and testable engineering requirements
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to perform or define system modeling, simulation, and testing to validate system performance against requirements
- Ownership of system-level performance and functional requirements as well as development of subsystem and component requirements in partnership with design engineers
- Establishing interface definitions across components and between mechanical, electrical, and software teams
- Reinforcing 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
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range: $127,500 - $248,500 USD
Full-time position
Compensation will be commensurate with experience
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