Redwood Materials
Abuse Test Engineer, Energy Storage
McCarran, NV · Full-time · Posted Apr 9, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Designs, conducts, and analyzes abuse tests to assess energy storage product safety and robustness under extreme conditions and misuse scenarios.
What you'll do
- Build test infrastructure for swift, safe, well-documented testing.
- Identify failure modes and perform instrumented abuse tests, including short circuit, overvoltage, overheating, overcharge, and forced thermal propagation.
- Use knowledge of failure mechanisms to help design products that are more robust to abuse.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong understanding of physics and the physics of failure.
- Proven experience with abuse testing, specifically UL9540a and related thermal propagation testing.
- Experience designing robust, fast-setup data acquisition rigs and actuation.
Nice to have
- Proficiency with data analysis tools such as MATLAB, Minitab, or Python.
Tools
UL9540a, MATLAB, Minitab, Python
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