# Staff Cathode Engineer

About Redwood Materials Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla, on a simple but radical idea: the critical minerals powering the energy transition already exist. They just need to come back. Today Redwood is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America - recovering, refining, and redeploying critical minerals from end-of-life batteries back into the supply chain. On the energy side, Redwood has deployed the largest second-life battery project in the world, delivering power to AI data centers in months rather than years using proprietary energy architecture engineered entirely in-house. The company is profitable, the market it operates in is projected to grow 20 to 50 times over the next decade, and Redwood is the only company with the supply chain, the technology, and the operational scale to lead it. Position Summary As a Staff Cathode Design Engineer, you will play a leading role in the development, scale-up, and manufacturing of Cathode Active Materials (CAM), including identifying, designing, and optimizing core production technologies. These technologies are critical to scaling cost-effective, high-performing proce

- **Id**: 212592
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/redwood-materials-staff-cathode-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: McCarran, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-04T14:39:55Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T02:26:38Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 65
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4775
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Energy Storage, Waste Management

## Company

- **Id**: 5557
- **Name**: Redwood Materials
- **Domain**: redwoodmaterials.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/redwood-materials>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 35
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.429
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 74
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 141000
- **Max usd**: 274000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1394

## Technologies

- **Design of Experiments** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 65

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-05T08:36:50Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 46 · green card filings: 6; Filings 12m: 46

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.869
- **P room**: 0.6
- **Age days**: 64
- **Expected fill days**: 74
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:late, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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