Principal Engineer, Extractive MetallurgyPosted today$42K–$104K
The opportunity
Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla, on a simple but radical idea: the critical minerals powering the energy transition already exist. They just need to come back.
What you'll do
Serves as Redwood's senior technical authority on extractive metallurgy,: owning the metallurgical basis of design for recycling and refining flowsheets from feedstock through refined product
Leads evaluation and selection of competing flowsheet options, translating: bench and pilot data into defensible recommendations for commercial deployment
Owns the metallurgical basis for intermediate and final product quality: specifications, diagnosing impurity deportment across unit operations and driving issues to root cause
Directs strategy for mineral processing and mechanical separation of: heterogeneous feedstocks, including comminution, liberation, classification, and physical concentration
Guides scale-up from bench through pilot to commercial operation, including: mass and energy balances, equipment selection, and vendor test campaigns
Partners with Business Development to define process pathways and pricing for: new feedstocks and to identify offtake markets and their value drivers
What they're looking for
- Advises operations and process engineering teams on recovery, yield, and: reliability shortfalls at commissioned plants, and raises metallurgical rigor across the engineering organization through technical review and mentorship
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Metallurgical Engineering, Extractive: Metallurgy, Mining Engineering, Mineral Processing, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline
- + years of experience in extractive metallurgy, mineral processing, or metals: process engineering, or equivalent depth of expertise
- Demonstrated ownership of deploying a flowsheet from pilot scale through: commercial operation, with accountability for the plant's technical performance
