BESS Development Engineer, Senior or StaffActive$160K

Redwood Materials
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The opportunity

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.

What you'll do

  • Early feasibility Business Development support: Development Engineer produces concept (feasibility) layouts and draft single-line diagrams from the BESS Product Team’s product specs and architecture guidance while customer discussions are in progress.

  • Advanced proposal support: Development Engineer finalizes EPC concept, scope, and cost basis behind business development’s proposal and provides technical exhibits that attach to the contract.

  • EPC Scope and Basis of Design (BOD): After a contract is signed and system architecture and inverter selection are finalized, the Development Engineer documents EPC scope and Basis of Design.

  • 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.

What they're looking for

  • 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.