Senior Power Systems Engineer, Energy StorageActive$160K

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

• Work with the product and controls design teams to translate power system: requirements into site controller and inverter controller specifications, influencing system and plant-level control architecture.

• Design, develop, and validate plant controller functions for battery energy: storage systems including voltage regulation, frequency regulation, P–f and Q–V droop control, active/reactive power control loops, and fast frequency response.

• Ensure control algorithms meet utility, ISO, and IEEE requirements including: ERCOT interconnection specifications and IEEE 2800 compliance.

• Build and strengthen in-house modeling capabilities for Redwood Energy’s: products in PSCAD and PSSE, including model validation against field and controller-hardware-in-the-loop behaviors.

• Set up and execute CHIL testing on platforms such as RTDS, OPAL-RT, or: Typhoon HIL to validate inverter and site controller performance under grid disturbance and fault scenarios.

• Develop automation tools for PSCAD and PSSE for interconnection studies using Python, C, or C++

What they're looking for

• + years of experience in power system studies, dynamic modeling,: inverter-based resources, or grid integration of energy storage and renewable energy systems.
• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering with specialization in power systems and control systems (PhD preferred).
• Strong foundation in classical and modern control theory including PID: tuning, state-space modeling, small-signal stability analysis, and frequency-domain analysis (Bode plots)
• Expert proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink for control algorithm development and testing.