Redwood Materials
Senior Battery Data Engineer
$172K–$198K
San Francisco, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Education
- BS or MS in Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Materials, Electrical), or a related field.
About the job
Develops the software stack for battery characterization, including data infrastructure, testing controls, and workflows connecting test data to modeling and analysis.
What you'll do
- Build and own infrastructure for large-scale battery time-series data and services that orchestrate battery testing.
- Develop tools for battery testing, including protocol schemas, cycler control APIs, anomaly detection, and digital twin simulation.
- Work with battery and algorithm experts to automate workflows and define evaluation criteria for AI agent features.
What they ask for
- BS or MS in Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Materials, Electrical), or a related field.
- Strong Python software development skills, including production services, data pipelines, and APIs.
- Familiarity with battery testing and cycler platforms.
- Experience with cloud data infrastructure for large-scale time-series data.
Nice to have
- Rust proficiency; experience building AI agent harnesses and eval suites; knowledge of lithium-ion cell behavior and safety.
- Experience with AI coding assistants like Cursor or Claude Code.
Pay
$172,500 — $198,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Arbin, Maccor, Neware, AWS, GCP, Azure, Rust
AI focus
Potentially build an AI agent co-pilot to accelerate battery characterization workflows, with deterministic tool-calling and evaluation suites developed with domain experts.
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