Abuse Test Engineer, Energy Storage

About the role

Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling — keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017, we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.

Responsibilities

• In addition to performing tests, you’ll help define and build the test infrastructure that will allow us to test swiftly, safely, and with excellent documentation
• You will also use your experience and understanding of failure mechanisms to help design new products to be as intrinsically robust to abuse as possible
• Designing, executing, and analyzing tests that simulate extreme conditions and misuse scenarios to ensure the safety of our new product
• Identify potential failure modes and then intentionally abuse complex electromechanical and electrochemical systems (via short circuit, overvoltage, overheat, overcharge, and forced thermal propagation) in a controlled, well-instrumented, well-documented environment in order to stress those failure modes and ensure our products are robust to real world abuse

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
• Strong understanding of physics and the physics of failure
• Proven experience with abuse tests, specifically UL9540a and related thermal propagation testing
• Proficiency in data analysis tools and software (e.g., MATLAB, Minitab, Python)
• Proven experience designing robust, fast-setup data acquisition rigs (e.g. temperature sensor) and actuation (e.g. heater, remote knife switch)
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Pay

Compensation will be commensurate with experience.