Job Details

Overview

About Redwood Materials

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 2019, we're delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.

Position: Test Engineering Lead, Energy Storage

You will be an early member of a new engineering team, responsible for building testers, defining test procedures, and executing tests for a new high-power electromechanical product line at Redwood. This includes engineering validation testers, reliability testers, and manufacturing testers for high volume (100,000s/year) production.

In this role you'll immediately start detailing the full-stack test infrastructure for our new product, while simultaneously building out a new organization to design, build, and support those testers throughout the product lifecycle.

Our ideal candidate is highly self-driven, adaptable to a startup environment, and eager to take on both technical and leadership challenges. You're excited to dive into individual contributor work when necessary, while simultaneously building a capable, robust test organization over time. You have experience with testing complex electromechanical products across mechanical, electrical, and software design of testers and test infrastructure. You understand how to collaborate with the product teams to build test procedures that strike the right balance between coverage, speed, and tester cost. You're a leader and a doer, excited about working in a dynamic, fast-paced setting, and want to shape the test engineering function within a new department at Redwood. If necessary, we will adjust the job level to suit your experience and responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, lead, and manage a high-caliber test engineering team
• Develop, deploy, and support testers across product validation and high-volume manufacturing lines
• Be a hands-on engineering manager, accountable for project goals and timelines
• Contribute to a collaborative, fast-paced startup culture, where every team member plays a crucial role in achieving company milestones

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical experience in mechanical, electrical, software, or related product design engineering — not necessarily in test engineering
• Comfort with high-voltage (400-2000VDC, and 480VAC) products
• Personal technical expertise in at least one aspect of test engineering (designing test fixtures, electrical cabinets, or software infrastructure for testers)
• Experience developing tools, infrastructure and design practices for a growing team
• Strong leadership and project management skills, with demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of building relationships with all levels of the organization and presenting to internal and external executives

Physical Requirements

• Ability to perform essential job functions consistently and safely with applicable standards
• Regular, punctual attendance

Working Conditions

• Office or outdoor environments; may include exposure to noise, dust, chemicals, and temperature extremes, while using PPE
• Essential physical requirements such as climbing, standing, stooping, or typing
• Occasional weekends, nights, or on-call as part of the role

Compensation

Salary range: $200,000 - $300,000 USD. The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience. Actual compensation may vary based on factors including experience, education, and skills.

Equal Opportunity

Redwood Materials is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.