Abuse Test Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and analyze tests simulating extreme conditions and misuse scenarios to ensure product safety
• Identify potential failure modes in complex electromechanical and electrochemical systems
• Perform intentional abuse testing including short circuit, overvoltage, overheat, overcharge, and forced thermal propagation
• Define and build test infrastructure for swift, safe, and well-documented testing
• Use failure mechanism understanding to assist in designing intrinsically robust products

Requirements

• 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 tests, specifically UL9540a and thermal propagation testing
• Proficiency in data analysis tools such as MATLAB, Minitab, or Python
• Experience designing data acquisition rigs and actuation systems
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

About the Company

Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling—keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition.