# BESS Project Engineer, Senior or Staff at Redwood Materials

- Company: Redwood Materials
- What the company does: Redwood Materials is building the U.S. stockpile of critical materials and deploying large-scale energy storage systems that power data centers and the nation’s grid.
- Company website: https://www.redwoodmaterials.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-12
- Apply by: 2026-10-27
- Apply: https://boards.greenhouse.io/redwoodmaterials/jobs/6190880004?gh_jid=6190880004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/redwood-materials-bess-project-engineer-senior-or-staff/

## About the role

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. The Senior or Staff BESS Project Engineer joins as an early member of a new engineering team working on our Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) product line.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Program Management, Business, or a related discipline
- Demonstrated experience managing projects from scoping through commissioning and Operations and Maintenance handoff, with ownership of schedule, budget, and risk
- Strong cross-functional communication skills, comfortable managing up, down, and across internal and external EPC, customer, and internal engineering teams
- Familiarity with key BESS-related standards such as UL 9540, UL 9540A, UL 1973, UL 1741, IEEE, NEC (NFPA 70), NFPA 855, and IEC
- Willingness to travel to project sites as needed
- A Passion for sustainability and making the world a better place!

Tags: EPC