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Software Validation Engineer, Energy Storage

Redwood Materials · San Francisco, California, United States

Posted Nov 3, 2026

Est. total comp~$201K–$317K

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About Redwood Materials

Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla, on a simple but radical idea: the critical minerals powering the energy transition already exist. They just need to come back. Today Redwood 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 in months rather than years using proprietary energy architecture engineered entirely in-house. The company is profitable, the market it operates in is projected to grow 20 to 50 times over the next decade, and Redwood is the only company with the supply chain, the technology, and the operational scale to lead it.

The Redwood Vision: Architecting the Future of the Grid

We are at the precipice of a global energy transition. At Redwood Materials, we are moving beyond battery recycling to build the most advanced, circular energy ecosystem on the planet. Our goal is to shift the industry from static, hardware-heavy infrastructure toward agile, software-defined energy assets. The Software Validation team ensures that these complex systems are safe, resilient, and ready for grid-scale deployment.

As a Software Validation Engineer , you are the bridge between pure code and physical reality. …

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