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About the Role
As the Senior Manager for Power Electronics Software & Controls, you will be the technical and organizational leader for the team building the digital intelligence behind next-generation Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and mixed-asset energy sites. You will unify advanced control theory and bare-metal embedded firmware under a single architectural vision, ensuring seamless synchronization of battery assets to stabilize the grid at industrial scale.
Responsibilities
- Own the software and controls technical roadmap and delivery across multiple concurrent power electronics programs.
- Guide the theoretical design, discrete-time synthesis, and optimization of closed-loop controllers for bidirectional DC/DC and AC/DC stages.
- Direct the development of advanced grid-forming (GFM) and grid-following (GFL) algorithms, virtual synchronous machine (VSM) dynamics, black-start capabilities, and active power/thermal balancing.
- Oversee the firmware architecture for real-time control targets, enforcing deterministic execution, sub-microsecond interrupt latency, high-resolution PWM synchronization, DMA-driven ADC sampling, and zero-overhead hardware abstraction in Rust and C.
- Establish rigorous architectural standards for functional isolation, freedom from interference (FFI), memory protection, and fault-tolerant state machines.
- Partner directly with power electronics hardware, magnetics, thermal, and site-controller leaders to optimize switching frequencies, dead-time compensation, thermal derating curves, and semiconductor loss balancing.
- Build closed-loop feedback systems from deployed field assets back to R&D to root-cause anomalies and deploy fleet-wide control refinements.
- Recruit, mentor, and retain an elite team of controls engineers and embedded firmware architects, fostering a culture of deep technical rigor, first-principles problem-solving, and high velocity.
Requirements
- MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field specializing in Power Electronics, Control Systems, or Embedded Systems.
- 10+ years of industry experience shipping high-power conversion systems.
- 5+ years leading highly technical engineering teams.
- Deep theoretical and practical command of high-efficiency power conversion and classical/modern control theory.
- Proven architectural mastery over bare-metal firmware in C and/or Rust on ARM Cortex-R/M or real-time DSP platforms.
- Expert-level fluency with power electronics modeling tools, Python for data analysis/test automation, and real-time HIL simulation platforms integrated into modern CI/CD build systems.
- Demonstrated history of taking complex, high-power hardware/software systems from initial mathematical modeling and bring-up through regulatory certification, volume manufacturing, and long-term field support.
Skills
- Power Electronics
- Control Systems
- Embedded Systems
- High-efficiency power conversion (DAB, LLC, CLLC, Flying Capacitor, ANPC)
- Classical/modern control theory (frequency-domain loop shaping, Bode/Nyquist stability analysis, state-space modeling, discrete-time z-domain implementation, active damping)
- Bare-metal firmware in C and/or Rust
- ARM Cortex-R/M or real-time DSP platforms
- Multi-core memory architecture
- Lock-free concurrency
- Peripheral drivers (CAN/CAN-FD, SPI, Ethernet, UART)
- Cycle-accurate profiling/debugging (JTAG/SWD, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes)
- Power electronics modeling tools (PLECS, MATLAB/Simulink)
- Python for data analysis/test automation
- Real-time HIL simulation platforms (Typhoon HIL, Opal-RT)
- CI/CD build systems (CMake, Git-based workflows)
- UL 1741
- UL 1973
- IEEE 1547
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- 10+ years of industry experience
- 5+ years leading teams
Education Level
- MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field
Salary/Compensations
- $262,500—$347,500 USD
About the Company
- Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla, on the idea that critical minerals powering the energy transition already exist and need to be recovered.
- Redwood Materials is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, recovering, refining, and redeploying critical minerals from end-of-life batteries back into the supply chain.
- On the energy side, Redwood has deployed the largest second-life battery project in the world, delivering power to AI data centers using proprietary energy architecture engineered entirely in-house.
- The company is profitable, operates in a market projected to grow 20 to 50 times over the next decade, and is the only company with the supply chain, technology, and operational scale to lead it.