Lead Multiphysics System Modeling for Energy Storage

Redwood Materials; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Redwood Materials in San Francisco, CA is seeking a System Modeling Engineer for Redwood Energy to design, develop, and integrate a new multiphysics modeling platform for energy storage systems.

The role focuses on robust, scalable models for diverse design decisions and requires strong physics intuition, programming in Python or MATLAB/Simulink, and collaboration across engineering teams in a startup environment.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Mechanical Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field; or BS with 2+ years' experience.
• Strong first-principles physics understanding of electrical/mechanical systems.
• Experience collaborating in software projects with multiple contributors.
• Hybrid or electric powertrain model development, PV model development, or data analysis in Python or MATLAB/Simulink.
• Familiarity with controls techniques and system identification.
• Experience with optimization techniques.
• Ability to write clear, testable engineering requirements.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to Redwood Material’s in-house performance and technoeconomic model.
• Drive architectural studies to explore the cost and performance design space.
• Produce component-level sensitivity analysis to allow component owners to make globally optimal cost and performance tradeoffs.
• Utilize the models to produce repeatable and dependable results for various stakeholders within the organization to drive product architecture and site-specific deployment decisions.
• Parallelize our modeling framework to utilize cloud computing resources to get results faster.
• Lead model validation efforts by writing test plans, working with test engineers to execute the test, and using the data to correlate the model.
• Effectively communicate modeling results to drive architecture and performance initiatives.

Skills

Multiphysics modeling

First-principles physics

Python

MATLAB/Simulink

Model validation

Cloud computing

Team collaboration

Education

MS or PhD in Mechanical Science or Electrical Engineering

BS + 2+ years of related work experience

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

Python

Cloud computing frameworks

Job description

Redwood Materials in San Francisco, CA is seeking a System Modeling Engineer for Redwood Energy to design, develop, and integrate a new multiphysics modeling platform for energy storage systems.

The role focuses on robust, scalable models for diverse design decisions and requires strong physics intuition, programming in Python or MATLAB/Simulink, and collaboration across engineering teams in a startup environment.