Senior Manager, Power Electronics Controls and Software

Redwood Materials • San Francisco, CA

4d • $262,500 - $347,500 • Onsite

About The Position

Redwood Materials is hiring a Senior Manager for Power Electronics Software & Controls to serve as the technical anchor and organizational leader for the team developing software and controls for next-generation Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and mixed-asset energy sites. This is an onsite position based in the San Francisco office.

The role combines advanced control theory and bare-metal embedded firmware under a unified architectural vision. The successful candidate will lead a team working on stability, modulation, and real-time processing, while driving multiple programs from concept through volume production and field maintenance. The work includes modeling power-electronics systems and deploying deterministic, safety-critical Rust and C code on ARM Cortex-R/M silicon to coordinate heterogeneous second-life and new battery assets at industrial scale.

Requirements

• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field specializing in Power Electronics, Control Systems, or Embedded Systems.
• 10+ years of industry experience shipping high-power conversion systems.
• 5+ years leading highly technical engineering teams.
• Deep theoretical and practical command of high-efficiency power conversion topologies, including DAB, LLC, CLLC, Flying Capacitor, and ANPC.
• Mastery of classical and modern control theory, including frequency-domain loop shaping, Bode/Nyquist stability analysis, state-space modeling, discrete-time z-domain implementation, and active damping.
• Proven architectural mastery of bare-metal firmware in C and/or Rust on ARM Cortex-R/M or real-time DSP platforms, including multi-core memory architecture, lock-free concurrency, peripheral drivers, and cycle-accurate profiling and debugging.
• Experience with peripheral drivers for CAN/CAN-FD, SPI, Ethernet, and UART, and debugging tools such as JTAG/SWD, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes.
• Expert-level fluency with PLECS and MATLAB/Simulink, Python for data analysis and test automation, and real-time HIL platforms such as Typhoon HIL and Opal-RT integrated with modern CI/CD build systems such as CMake and Git-based workflows.
• Demonstrated history of taking complex, high-power hardware/software systems from mathematical modeling and bring-up through regulatory certification, volume manufacturing, and long-term field support.

Responsibilities

• Own the software and controls technical roadmap and delivery across multiple concurrent power-electronics programs, from concept and topology selection through EVT/DVT/PVT, mass manufacturing, utility commissioning, and field diagnostics and OTA maintenance.
• Guide the theoretical design, discrete-time synthesis, and optimization of closed-loop controllers for bidirectional DC/DC and AC/DC stages, including DAB, LLC, CLLC, Flying Capacitor, and ANPC topologies.
• Direct development of grid-forming and grid-following algorithms, virtual synchronous machine dynamics, black-start capabilities, and active power and thermal balancing across heterogeneous recycled and new battery arrays.
• Oversee real-time control firmware architecture for ARM Cortex-R, Cortex-M, and DSP targets, emphasizing deterministic execution, low interrupt latency, synchronized high-resolution PWM, DMA-driven ADC sampling, and Rust and C hardware abstraction.
• Establish architectural standards for functional isolation, freedom from interference, memory protection, and fault-tolerant state machines across multi-core environments, supporting compliance with UL 1741, UL 1973, and IEEE 1547.
• Partner with power-electronics hardware, magnetics, thermal, and site-controller leaders on switching frequencies, dead-time compensation, thermal derating curves, and semiconductor loss balancing.
• Build feedback systems that connect deployed field assets to R&D, using fault capture and time-series telemetry to investigate grid-interaction anomalies and deploy fleet-wide control improvements.
• Recruit, mentor, and retain controls engineers and embedded firmware architects, fostering technical rigor, first-principles problem-solving, and high velocity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior