Staff Software Engineer (Manufacturing)

Location: McCarran, Nevada or San Francisco, California, United States; on-site work with stakeholders 3 days per week is required. Final-round interviews take place in person at a designated office location.

Salary: $217,500–$287,500 USD per year, with compensation commensurate with experience.

Company

A battery recycling and energy technology company recovering, refining, and redeploying critical minerals from end-of-life batteries and developing large-scale second-life battery systems.

What you will do

• Own a domain of the internal Redwood OS platform from business problem definition through design, delivery, and production operations.
• Translate ambiguous business needs into clear specifications for engineers and AI coding agents.
• Make design decisions across service boundaries, data models, APIs, integrations, observability, and access control.
• Set code-review standards, decompose work for AI agents, verify outputs, and remain accountable for shipped software.
• Debug production issues, improve reliability, and maintain platform coherence as multiple engineers and agents work in parallel.
• Work with warehouse and manufacturing operators through floor walks, observation, pairing sessions, and demos.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership of a significant system or domain.
• Experience owning a problem space end to end with minimal direction.
• Strong Python, production React, and experience building and operating applications on AWS.
• Deep knowledge of system design, API design, integration patterns, data modeling, and service boundaries.
• Strong technical writing skills for specifications, design documents, and pull requests.
• Ability to work alongside warehouse and manufacturing operators on-site 3 days per week.

Nice to have

• Experience as a tech lead, engineering manager, or otherwise accountable for team output.
• Experience with ERP, WMS, MES, supply chain, or procurement systems.
• Manufacturing, logistics, or recycling industry experience.
• Experience integrating with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations.
• Experience operating systems that support physical operations around the clock.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent product ownership rather than project-based work.
• Direct collaboration with business stakeholders and physical operations teams.
• Opportunity to improve documentation, conventions, tooling, mentoring, and engineering effectiveness.
• Full-time employment with compensation based on experience, education, and skills.

Hiring process

• Final-round interviews are conducted in person at a designated office location.
• Travel details are coordinated with selected candidates.