Senior Systems Engineer, Energy Storage

Position Summary: 

You will be an early member of a new engineering team, taking a hands-on role in the design, development, and integration of a new product at Redwood. This position will lead our system engineering effort, helping our mechanical, electrical, and software engineers come together and deliver a cohesive system. You will define clear requirements, evaluate and down-select system architectures, and drive the decision throughout the engineering organization. You are a believer and practitioner of model-driven design and have right-sized system engineering frameworks for a scrappy, fast-moving engineering team. 

The ideal candidate is highly self-driven, adaptable to a startup environment, and eager to take on novel technical challenges. If you’re excited about working in a dynamic, fast-paced setting within a new department at Redwood, we want to hear from you! 

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 

Desired Qualifications: 

• BS or MS in Mechanical Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field and 5+ years of design engineering or system engineering experience. 
• Excellent first-principles physics 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 requitement management tools (Doors, Jama, etc) 
• Demonstrated ability to write clear and testable engineering requirements. 
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.