Redwood Materials
Principal Engineer, Extractive Metallurgy
Carson City, NV +2 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Location
- Carson City, NV
San Francisco, California, United States
McCarran, NV - Experience
- 15+ years, or equivalent depth of expertise.
- Education
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Metallurgical Engineering, Extractive Metallurgy, Mining Engineering, Mineral Processing, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline.
About the job
Leads extractive metallurgy strategy and technical decisions for Redwood’s battery-recycling and refining flowsheets, from feedstock processing through commercial-scale metal production.
What you'll do
- Selects and evaluates flowsheets, using bench and pilot data to recommend commercial deployment.
- Defines product quality and diagnoses impurity, recovery, yield, and reliability issues across operations.
- Guides mineral processing, scale-up, equipment selection, plant deployment, and technical reviews.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in a listed or related engineering or science discipline.
- 15+ years 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, accountable for plant technical performance.
- Industrial-scale experience in pyrometallurgy or hydrometallurgy; operating-plant experience and ability to travel to plant sites as required; experience with comminution and physical separation of heterogeneous feedstocks.
Nice to have
- Experience across both pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy.
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