Redwoodmaterials
Senior Service Engineer, Energy Storage
San Francisco, California, United States. Posted 8 months ago
The role
The Senior Service Engineer, Energy Storage resolves complex technical issues across deployed battery energy storage systems. This role serves as a technical escalation path for the operations and maintenance organization and translates operational issues into engineering solutions.
What you will do
- Acts as the primary technical escalation point for the operations and maintenance organization
- Defines handoff criteria, escalation thresholds, and response expectations
- Owns investigation and resolution of complex electrical, controls, software, thermal, and system-integration issues
- Translates field feedback into actionable requirements for product, systems, and R&D engineering teams
- Drives improvements in system serviceability, reliability, and maintainability
- Owns advanced service documentation including troubleshooting guides and service bulletins
- Develops technical training materials and supports team upskilling
- Drives the development of custom service tooling
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or a related technical discipline
- 4+ years of experience supporting complex electromechanical or power electronics systems such as BESS, renewable energy, or industrial systems
- Experience working safely on high-voltage AC and DC systems, including applicable electrical safety practices
- Working knowledge of BESS architecture, including batteries, inverters and power conversion, energy management, thermal management, and protection systems
- Experience working within a tiered support model between field operations, service engineering, and product engineering
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
About the company
Redwood Materials is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America. The company recovers, refines, and redeploys critical minerals from end-of-life batteries back into the supply chain.