Senior Manager, Power Electronics Controls and SoftwarePosted today$222K

Redwood Materials
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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

  • End-to-End Program Leadership: Own the software and controls technical roadmap and delivery across multiple concurrent power electronics program, driving systems from first-principles concept and topology selection through EVT/DVT/PVT, mass manufacturing, utility commissioning, and in-field fleet diagnostics/OTA maintenance.

  • Advanced Control Systems & Topologies: Guide the theoretical design, discrete-time synthesis, and optimization of closed-loop controllers for bidirectional DC/DC and AC/DC stages, including resonant topologies (DAB, LLC, CLLC) and multi-level architectures (Flying Capacitor, ANPC).

  • Grid-Scale & Multi-Asset Synchronization: Direct the development of advanced grid-forming (GFM) and grid-following (GFL) algorithms, virtual synchronous machine (VSM) dynamics, black-start capabilities, and active power/thermal balancing across heterogeneous, recycled, and new battery arrays.

  • Bare-Metal & Multi-Core Firmware Architecture: Oversee the firmware architecture for real-time control targets (ARM Cortex-R, Cortex-M, and DSPs), enforcing deterministic execution, sub-microsecond interrupt latency, high-resolution PWM synchronization, DMA-driven ADC sampling, and zero-overhead hardware abstraction in Rust and C.

  • Safety-Critical & Resilient Systems: Establish rigorous architectural standards for functional isolation, freedom from interference (FFI), memory protection, and fault-tolerant state machines across multi-core environments, ensuring compliance with UL 1741, UL 1973, and IEEE 1547.

  • Hardware-Software Co-Design: Partner directly with power electronics hardware, magnetics, thermal, and site-controller leaders to optimize switching frequencies, dead-time compensation, thermal derating curves, and semiconductor loss balancing.

What they're looking for

  • Field Telemetry & Fleet Reliability: Build closed-loop feedback systems from deployed field assets back to R&D—leveraging high-resolution fault capture and time-series telemetry to root-cause elusive grid-interaction anomalies and deploy fleet-wide control refinements.
  • Talent & Culture: Recruit, mentor, and retain an elite team of controls engineers and embedded firmware architects, fostering a culture of deep technical rigor, first-principles problem-solving, and high velocity.
  • Education & Experience: MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field specializing in Power Electronics, Control Systems, or Embedded Systems, combined with 10+ years of industry experience shipping high-power conversion systems and 5+ years leading highly technical engineering teams.
  • Topology & Control Theory Mastery: Deep theoretical and practical command of high-efficiency power conversion (DAB, LLC, CLLC, Flying Capacitor, ANPC) and classical/modern control theory (frequency-domain loop shaping, Bode/Nyquist stability analysis, state-space modeling, discrete-time z-domain implementation, and active damping).