Senior Manager, Power Electronics Controls and Software

The role

You will serve as a technical anchor and organizational leader for the team building digital intelligence for Battery Energy Storage Systems and mixed-asset energy sites. You will unify advanced control theory and bare-metal embedded firmware under a single architectural vision.

What you will do

• 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.
• Direct the development of advanced grid-forming and grid-following algorithms.
• Oversee the firmware architecture for real-time control targets.
• Establish rigorous architectural standards for functional isolation and fault-tolerant state machines.
• Partner with hardware, magnetics, thermal, and site-controller leaders to optimize systems.
• Build closed-loop feedback systems from deployed field assets back to R&D.
• Recruit, mentor, and retain an elite team of controls engineers and embedded firmware architects.

Required qualifications

• 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.
• 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 (PLECS, MATLAB/Simulink).
• Python for data analysis/test automation.
• Experience with real-time HIL simulation platforms (Typhoon HIL, Opal-RT).
• History of taking complex, high-power hardware/software systems from mathematical modeling through regulatory certification, volume manufacturing, and field support.

About the company

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