Senior Software Engineer, Energy Storage
Redwood Materials5 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $238k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain battery energy storage telemetry pipelines, data stores, and feature ingestion and storage systems for forecasting and optimization.
- Design, build, and maintain infrastructure for running and orchestrating simulations at scale.
- Develop and operate real-time forecasting and optimization workflows that drive battery energy storage operations.
- Support energy market integration, including data ingestion and bid management.
- Collaborate across the full stack and team boundaries to ensure the overall product system works effectively.
- Write well-tested and well-monitored software and iteratively improve it over time.
- Apply AI tools to accelerate development while maintaining high system design and code standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or another discipline.
- 2–5 years of software engineering experience.
- Strong software design instincts and understanding of reliable, scalable, secure distributed systems.
- Ability to use AI tools productively while maintaining system design and code quality.
- Strong collaboration, communication, initiative, systems thinking, and ownership.
- Commitment to writing well-tested and well-monitored software.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Rust, Python, NATS, PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB, or SQLite is a plus.
- Passion for sustainability and improving the world.
Benefits
- Full-time position.
- Salary range of $150,000–$237,500 USD, with compensation commensurate with experience.
Tech Stack
About Redwood Materials
Redwood Materials builds a circular supply chain for lithium-ion batteries by recycling end-of-life cells and manufacturing cathode active materials and copper foil for EV and grid-storage makers. The privately held company, founded in 2017 by JB Straubel and headquartered in Carson City, Nevada, also deploys large-scale energy storage systems. Its model combines collection and processing of batteries with U.S.-based production of critical materials such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, and copper.