Senior Manager, Software Test & Validation

The role

You will build and lead engineering teams responsible for SIL/HIL simulation, manufacturing test software, site commissioning tooling, and fleet data analytics. You will drive quality across hardware programs from R&D through volume manufacturing and field operations.

What you will do

• Direct the architecture and scaling of SIL and HIL infrastructure
• Oversee the design of custom signal-conditioning interface hardware and virtual plant models
• Integrate automated SIL and HIL regression suites into CI/CD pipelines
• Lead the development of automated manufacturing test software and EOL functional test frameworks
• Build firmware flashing, hardware calibration, and automated diagnostics systems
• Architect and deliver automated field commissioning tools
• Lead the architecture of fleet-wide data analytics frameworks and time-series observability pipelines
• Develop automated health-monitoring models and anomaly detection algorithms
• Recruit, mentor, and lead a multidisciplinary team of engineers
• Partner with Power Electronics Controls, Embedded Firmware, Hardware Engineering, Manufacturing Operations, and Field Service teams

Required qualifications

• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or BS with equivalent elite depth)
• 10+ years of industry experience in software validation, HIL simulation, manufacturing test, and fleet reliability analytics for complex hardware systems
• 5+ years leading technical engineering teams
• Proven track record architecting real-time simulation environments (Typhoon HIL, Opal-RT, or dSPACE)
• Demonstrated experience building and deploying automated factory test software, hardware bring-up utilities, and field commissioning frameworks
• Expert-level proficiency in Python (Pytest, Pandas, SciPy, time-series and predictive modeling stacks)
• Solid working fluency in Rust and C/C++
• Strong experience designing automated CI/CD pipelines for hardware-in-the-loop targets and containerization (Docker)
• Experience with scalable time-series telemetry architectures
• Deep comfort operating in high-voltage power electronics lab environments
• Experience utilizing oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers, and industrial communication protocols (CAN/CAN-FD, Ethernet, Modbus, SPI)

Nice to have

• Experience validating grid-scale Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), utility-interactive inverters, or mixed-chemistry/second-life EV battery installations against UL 1741, UL 1973, and IEEE 1547 s
• Proven experience building prognostic algorithms that correlate factory EOL baseline signatures with in-field operational telemetry
• Track record of designing custom automated fault-injection hardware and custom breakout PCB interfaces for multi-rack HIL testbeds

About the company

Redwood Materials is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, recovering, refining, and redeploying critical minerals. The company builds an advanced, circular energy ecosystem shifting the industry toward software-defined energy assets.