Sr. System Modeling Engineer, Energy StorageActive$115K

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

• Contribute to Redwood Material’s in-house performance and technoeconomic model.

• Drive architectural studies to explore the cost and performance design space.

• Produce component-level sensitivity analysis to allow component owners to: make globally optimal cost and performance tradeoffs.

• Utilize the models to produce repeatable and dependable results for various: stakeholders within the organization to drive product architecture and site-specific deployment decisions.

• Parallelize our modeling framework to utilize cloud computing resources to get results faster.

• Lead model validation efforts by writing test plans, working with test: engineers to execute the test, and using the data to correlate the model.

What they're looking for

• Effectively communicate modeling results to drive architecture and performance initiatives.
• An MS or PhD in Mechanical Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related: field. Or a BS and 2+ years of related work experience.
• Excellent first-principles physics understanding of electrical and mechanical: systems, power delivery, energy storage and transformation, and basic thermal mechanics.
• Experience collaborating in software projects with multiple contributors.