BESS Electrical 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

  • Lead the electrical and controls front-end scope for assigned early-phase: pursuits, coordinating across Business Development, the Product team, and engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) engineering and project controls, and serving as Business Development's electrical technical support for scope, cost, schedule, and contract exhibits.

  • Build scalable electrical scoping practices that mature over time—codifying: standardized, reusable architectures while thoughtfully applying custom engineering on a per-project basis.

  • Develop concept and preliminary electrical designs: site layouts, single-line diagrams, and controls network architecture - integrating the Product Team's system architecture, inverter/PCS and MV transformer configuration, and DC block arrangement with site constraints.

  • Perform screening-level power system studies such as load flow, short: circuit, and protective device coordination to size major equipment, set voltage classes and ratings, and define the study scope for detailed design.

  • Support early utility and ISO/RTO interconnection strategy: identifying viable pathways and timelines from site location, front-/behind-the-meter need, point of interconnection, and applicable requirements — and translate it into the design basis.

  • Establish the electrical code and standards basis (NEC 705/706, IEEE 1547, UL: 9540/9540A, NFPA 855) and document the compliance framework for detailed design, coordinating fire/life-safety and DC-system requirements and developing alternative means and methods (AM&M) or performance-based design options.

What they're looking for

  • Drive the electrical information-request checklist to closure: product configuration and cutsheets, utility interconnection inputs, and AHJ/regulatory requirements — assigning owners, tracking status, and surfacing scope ambiguities and long-lead items such as MV transformers and switchgear.
  • Establish the electrical Basis of Design and design criteria: AC/DC architecture, MV collection, grounding and bonding, protection and coordination, metering, and auxiliary/balance-of-plant power — to the level needed to define scope and hand off to detailed design.
  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering from an ABET-accredited program (M.S. a plus),: or equivalent demonstrated ability.
  • + years (Senior), 8+ years (Staff) in battery energy storage, solar, or: microgrid projects, including front-end and conceptual design and owner's engineering for utility-scale projects.