# Principal Engineer, Extractive Metallurgy 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: Principal and up
- Location: Carson City, NV; San Francisco, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-05
- Apply by: 2026-11-19
- Apply: https://boards.greenhouse.io/redwoodmaterials/jobs/6211118004?gh_jid=6211118004&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/redwood-materials-principal-engineer-extractive-metallurgy/

## About the role

The position serves as Redwood's senior technical authority on extractive metallurgy across the company's recycling and refining operations. The role owns the metallurgical basis of design for how Redwood liberates, separates, and refines metals from recycled feedstocks, spanning mechanical separation of heterogeneous feeds, high-temperature processing, hydrometallurgical refining, and electrochemical upgrading of battery metals and other critical minerals. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Metallurgical Engineering, Extractive Metallurgy, Mining Engineering, Mineral Processing, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline
- 15+ years of experience in extractive metallurgy, mineral processing, or metals process engineering, or equivalent depth of expertise
- Demonstrated ownership of deploying a flowsheet from pilot scale through commercial operation, with accountability for the plant's technical performance
- Deep industrial-scale experience in pyrometallurgy or hydrometallurgy, experience across both preferred
- Hands-on experience in an operating plant environment such as a smelter, refinery, or concentrator, with ability to travel to plant sites as required
- Experience with comminution and physical separation of variable, heterogeneous feedstocks

Tags: Engineering & Technology

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