Senior Systems Engineer - Energy Systems Architect

Redwood Materials Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Redwood Materials is building a new engineering team to design, develop, and integrate a cohesive system for a next-generation product. You will lead system engineering, define requirements, evaluate architectures, and drive decisions across mechanical, electrical, and software colleagues.

The ideal candidate is self-driven, adaptable to a startup-like pace, and excited to tackle novel technical challenges within a new department at Redwood.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Mechanical Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field; 5+ years of design or system engineering experience.
• Excellent understanding of electrical and mechanical systems, power delivery, energy storage and transformation, and basic thermal mechanics.
• Experience with hybrid or electric powertrain development, PV system development, or energy storage systems.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Driving system architecture optimization to top-level product metrics such as cost, efficiency, energy/power density and availability.
• Ownership of system-level performance and functional requirements as well as development of subsystem and component requirements in partnership with design engineers.
• Performing or defining system modeling, simulation, and testing to validate system performance against requirements.
• Establishing interface definitions across components and between mechanical, electrical, and software teams.
• Reinforce 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

Skills

System engineering

First-principles physics

Model-driven design

Cross-functional collaboration

Python

Matlab

Education

BS/MS in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Tools

Doors

Jama

Job description

Redwood Materials is building a new engineering team to design, develop, and integrate a cohesive system for a next-generation product. You will lead system engineering, define requirements, evaluate architectures, and drive decisions across mechanical, electrical, and software colleagues.

The ideal candidate is self-driven, adaptable to a startup-like pace, and excited to tackle novel technical challenges within a new department at Redwood.