Power Electronics Controls Engineer, Energy Storage

7+ years of experience in electrical engineering, with a strong focus in power conversion or energy storage products, ideally for mass production

Experience in high-voltage (up to 2000VDC, and 480VAC) design

Basic knowledge of control theory and embedded systems

Experience in rapid iterations on prototypes based on customer, supplier, and co-worker feedback

Strong understanding of power electronics topologies and fundamentals (AC/DC, DC/DC)

Experience with semiconductor selections, gate drive, and protection circuit design

$153,000

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$248,500 USD

You will be an early member of a product design team, responsible for the detailed power electronics design, prototype, and launch into high-volume production of an efficient, cost effective, highly manufacturable, and technologically leading-edge power converter.

Familiar with high voltage (up to ~1,000 – 2,000VDC and 480VAC) and high power (~10 – 200kW) power converters, you can quantitatively compare and select topologies, control algorithms, semiconductors, and magnetics while respecting engineering constraints (efficiency, cost, reliability, simplicity, etc).  You understand both hard- and soft-switched topologies.

You can create highly accurate time-domain control and thermal models of your circuits to inform software and mechanical development, and while your core specialty is high-power circuitry design, you have a working understanding of microprocessor selection, electrical insulation, and thermal interface.

Knowing how important circuit board layout is in high-power conversion, you’re willing to jump in and do the most critical parts of the powertrain layout yourself.

You’re a doer, excited about working in a dynamic, fast-paced setting, and want to shape the electrical engineering function within a new department at Redwood.

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Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling

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keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017,

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.

Power Electronics Controls Engineer, Energy Storage