Solar PV Project Engineer

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.

Redwood Materials is deploying large-scale battery energy storage systems that power data centers and the grid, including North America's largest microgrid (63 MWh) for Crusoe, a stationary storage partnership with GM using new and second-life EV batteries, and a new deployment at Rivian's Normal, Illinois manufacturing plant. This role is an early member of a new engineering team building that project delivery capability from the ground up. As Senior or Staff Solar PV Project Engineer, you will own the full lifecycle of the photovoltaic (PV) portion of our energy storage projects, from commercial scoping through engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning. You will turn early, ambiguous inputs into buildable single line diagrams, layouts, and a clear technical scope, then act as the connective tissue between Business Development, Product Engineering, and our internal and external engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) partners. The work rewards people who move fast without sacrificing the depth that sets projects up to succeed, and who want to shape how Redwood delivers energy storage at scale.

Responsibilities will include:

• Own solar PV system design at the concept and preliminary level for utility-scale solar-plus-storage projects, producing single line diagrams, array layouts, and string and inverter sizing using industry-standard solar design software
• Define the technical scope and Basis of Design for the solar portion of each project, hand a gap-closed package to detailed design teams and internal or external EPC partners, and stay involved through the full PV lifecycle
• Serve as the technical point of contact for solar PV scope across internal teams (Project Engineering, Commercial, Development) and external parties (EPCs, racking and module vendors, engineering consultants)
• Evaluate site conditions (topography, soils, shading, resource data) during early-stage feasibility to confirm buildable area and system performance assumptions