Controls Engineer, New Product
Redwood MaterialsPosted March 8, 2025
San Francisco, California
Electric Vehicles$135,000 - $180,000
Full Time
Job Description
The Controls Engineer for New Products at Redwood Materials will design, develop, and integrate new battery control systems, focusing on algorithms and thermal control strategies, while collaborating with firmware engineers in a dynamic startup environment.
Responsibilities
- •Develop control architectures and algorithms across multiple layers of power converters.
- •Lead thermal control strategies for the system.
- •Conduct system identification and modeling, designing experiments for data collection and parameter estimation.
- •Collaborate with embedded firmware engineers to ensure algorithm implementation in resource-constrained real-time environments.
Requirements
- •B.S. or M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- •5 years of model development or systems engineering experience.
- •Strong first-principles understanding of electrical and mechanical systems, power delivery, energy storage, and thermal mechanics.
- •Solid foundation in classical and modern control theory including stability, controllability, and observability.
- •Expertise in Li-ion battery estimation, including SOC and SOH modeling, Coulomb counting, and Kalman filters (EKF).
- •Hands-on experience designing and tuning PID controllers and working with frequency-domain analysis.
- •Demonstrated ability to write clear and testable engineering requirements.
- •Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Benefits
- •Compensation/salary range: 135,000 - 180,000 USD
- •Full-time work schedule
- •Dynamic, fast-paced work environment
- •Compensation commensurate with experience
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