Abuse Test Engineer, Energy Storage

The role

You will design, execute, and analyze tests that simulate extreme conditions and misuse scenarios to ensure product safety. You will identify failure modes and intentionally abuse electromechanical and electrochemical systems to ensure product robustness.

What you will do

• Design, execute, and analyze tests that simulate extreme conditions and misuse scenarios to ensure the safety of our new product.
• Identify potential failure modes and intentionally abuse complex electromechanical and electrochemical systems via short circuit, overvoltage, overheat, overcharge, and forced thermal propagation.
• Define and build the test infrastructure to allow testing swiftly, safely, and with excellent documentation.
• Use experience and understanding of failure mechanisms to help design new products to be as intrinsically robust to abuse as possible.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
• Strong understanding of physics and the physics of failure
• Proficiency in data analysis tools and software (e.g., MATLAB, Minitab, Python)
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Nice to have

• Proven experience with abuse tests, specifically UL9540a and related thermal propagation testing
• Proven experience designing robust, fast-setup data acquisition rigs (e.g. temperature sensor) and actuation (e.g. heater, remote knife switch)

About the company

Redwood Materials is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, recovering, refining, and redeploying critical minerals from end-of-life batteries. The company has deployed the largest second-life battery project in the world.