Design Validation Engineer, Energy Storage (San Francisco)
SAN FRANCISCO, CAPosted 20 days ago
Job summary
Job post source
This job is directly from Redwood Materials
Job overview
The Design Validation Engineer at Redwood Materials plays a critical role in developing and validating new energy storage products, ensuring their reliability across mechanical, electrical, and software domains.
Responsibilities and impact
The engineer will define reliability strategies, plan and execute various reliability tests, collaborate on design-for-reliability requirements, analyze failure data, support failure analysis, and contribute to continuous improvement of reliability processes.
Compensation and benefits
The position is full-time with compensation commensurate with experience; specific salary, bonuses, and benefits details are not provided.
Experience and skills
Candidates should have a bachelor's or master's in engineering or related fields, over 5 years of hardware reliability experience, knowledge of failure mechanisms, proficiency in statistical tools, and familiarity with reliability lab equipment and failure analysis techniques.
Work environment and culture
Redwood Materials emphasizes sustainability and innovation in clean energy, with a hands-on, proactive, and analytical work environment that may involve challenging conditions and occasional off-hours work.
Company information
Redwood Materials, founded in 2017, focuses on creating a circular supply chain for electric vehicles and clean energy by developing technologies to recycle and sustainably source battery materials.
Team overview
The role is part of a new engineering team involved in early product development stages, collaborating cross-functionally to ensure product reliability.
Job location and travel
The job is based in San Francisco with work conditions including office and potentially challenging environments requiring PPE and occasional weekend or night work.
Application process
Applicants must submit personal information, resume, and answer voluntary self-identification surveys; the process includes compliance with federal equal employment opportunity standards.
Unique job features
This role is distinguished by its involvement in cutting-edge energy storage product validation, requiring expertise across multiple engineering domains and use of advanced reliability testing and failure analysis methods.
Company overview
Redwood Materials is a company focused on creating a circular supply chain for batteries and electronic waste. Founded by JB Straubel, a co-founder of Tesla, the company specializes in recycling lithium-ion batteries and recovering valuable materials such as cobalt, nickel, and lithium. By processing these materials, Redwood Materials aims to reduce the environmental impact of battery production and support the growing demand for electric vehicles and energy storage solutions. The company generates revenue through partnerships with major corporations and by selling reclaimed materials back into the supply chain.
How to land this job
Tailor your resume to emphasize hands-on experience in reliability testing methods such as HALT, thermal cycling, vibration, and ingress protection, showcasing your ability to support hardware product validation across mechanical, electrical, and software domains.
Highlight your expertise in failure analysis techniques like X-ray, SEM, cross-sectioning, and EDX, and your proficiency with statistical tools such as Minitab, JMP, or Python to analyze reliability data and predict product performance.
Apply through multiple channels including Redwood Materials' official career page and LinkedIn to maximize your chances of being noticed by recruiters and hiring managers.
Connect with current employees in the engineering or reliability divisions at Redwood Materials on LinkedIn; open conversations with ice breakers like commenting on Redwood’s sustainability mission or asking about their experience working on new product validation strategies.
Optimize your resume for ATS by incorporating keywords directly from the job description such as 'design validation,' 'reliability testing,' 'failure analysis,' 'PCBAs,' and 'accelerated life test models' to ensure it passes automated screenings.
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