Senior BESS Development Engineer: Feasibility to Scope Lead

Redwood Materials; Reno, San Francisco (NV, CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Redwood Materials seeks a Senior or Staff BESS Development Engineer to join early in a new team focused on Battery Energy Storage System concepts and permitting paths. The role emphasizes turning ambiguous inputs into buildable scope, concept design, and interconnection planning, balancing speed with depth.

The candidate will coordinate across BD, engineering teams, and EPC stakeholders, working in a fast-paced environment to win and execute energy storage projects at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years (Senior), 8+ years (Staff) of experience in energy project development, design, and construction with BESS and utility scale solar experience preferred.
• Familiarity with grid-scale energy storage technologies and balance-of-plant equipment (e.g. inverters, transformers, switchgear, fire detection).
• Strong working knowledge of electrical system design, interconnection requirements, and utility-scale BESS project execution.
• Familiarity with BESS industry standards and codes (UL 9540/9540A/1973/1741, NFPA 855, IEEE, NEC (NFPA 70), IEC).
• PE License preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate technically across BD, BESS Product Team, internal EPC engineers, and internal EPC project controls.
• Own internal and external EPC engineering resourcing and schedule for assigned early-phase work.
• Work with Business Development (BD) team to serve as BD's technical engineering support, supplying scope boundaries, buildability constraints, the design/construction/install side of the cost estimate, schedule, and the technical exhibits attached to the contract.
• Work with BESS Product Team who owns system architecture, configuration, and product compliance documentation.
• Engage civil, structural, electrical, controls, and fire engineering disciplines to review studies, layouts, and Single Line Diagrams (SLDs) produced by Development Engineer.
• Includes setting the design basis, routing data-request items to the right discipline, prioritizing against the pursuit schedule and combining elements into concept package.
• Engage project controls team for cost estimation and schedules to support BD proposals and facilitate resource planning.
• Coordinate and document critical electrical and fire/life-safety requirements or assumptions with risks and project mitigations.
• Deliver feasibility studies that document if and how project site physically and electrically host the system.
• Confirm buildable area, interconnection viability, and a clear permitting path.
• Output is a go/no-go input plus constraints register.
• Deliver gap analysis using data/information request checklist as gap tool, assign an owner to every item, and track status.
• Surface scope-delineation ambiguities and long-lead items.
• Drive the data/information request checklist to closure, including site surveys, geotechnical report, product configuration and cutsheets, product compliance basis, utility interconnection inputs, and AHJ and regulatory requirements.
• Document scope delineation across internal and external responsible parties.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Prioritization

Education

BS in Engineering (Civil or Electrical)

Tools

AutoCAD

Bluebeam

Civil 3D

Revit

Job description

Redwood Materials seeks a Senior or Staff BESS Development Engineer to join early in a new team focused on Battery Energy Storage System concepts and permitting paths. The role emphasizes turning ambiguous inputs into buildable scope, concept design, and interconnection planning, balancing speed with depth.

The candidate will coordinate across BD, engineering teams, and EPC stakeholders, working in a fast-paced environment to win and execute energy storage projects at scale.