Company details

Carson City, NV

HEADCOUNT

1000-2999

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Energy & Climate

WEBSITE

https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/

About the company

Redwood Materials recycles lithium-ion batteries to recover critical minerals like lithium, nickel, cobalt, and copper, and the company also builds and deploys large-scale energy storage systems. Redwood Materials positions the work around securing domestic supply of battery materials and supporting grid and data center power needs. Redwood Materials was founded by JB Straubel and operates as a private company focused on scaling battery recycling, refining, and energy storage deployment. Redwood Materials partners with major automotive and battery ecosystem players and has been expanding facilities and capacity in the U.S.

Locations and presence

Redwood Materials is headquartered in Northern Nevada, with major operations around the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center and a campus presence tied to Carson City and the Sparks area, plus a Carolina campus near Charleston (Ridgeville) and an R&D center in San Francisco. Roles skew on-site for manufacturing, lab, and facilities work, with some office-based and occasional remote roles depending on function.

Palpable Score

61.5

/ 100

Redwood Materials offers real entry points through paid internships and co-ops across engineering and corporate functions, but the company does not show a clearly structured graduate pipeline. Candidate experience and early-career development signals are mixed, with some evidence of fast learning through hands-on work and some evidence of uneven recruiting communication. Pay transparency is stronger for California-based roles than for many other locations, and outcome signals suggest a workable but not consistently polished early-career environment.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

14.5

/ 20

The company posts multiple paid internship and co-op roles (for example technical program management and engineering internships) with defined formats like 12-week internships or 4–8 month co-ops.

Redwood Materials uses a centralized public job board that includes intern roles alongside technician, associate, and operations postings, which helps early-career candidates find legitimate openings without backchannels.

The company’s early-career access still looks role-by-role rather than a clearly labeled graduate scheme, and many openings on the main board are mid-to-senior level.

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Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

12.5

/ 20

The company has enough interview volume on public platforms to show common stages and typical timelines (including phone screens and onsite-style steps), which gives candidates some expectation-setting.

Redwood Materials has at least one detailed candidate report describing a scheduled recruiter call that never happened followed by a rejection email, which raises concerns about consistency.

The company’s job posts commonly state responsibilities and qualifications clearly, but many do not commit to feedback, timelines, or assessment expectations in the posting itself.

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Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

11.0

/ 20

The company’s internship postings describe cross-functional, hands-on work (project tracking, field installation support, commissioning coordination), which can accelerate learning for early-career hires.

Redwood Materials has public employee feedback describing rapid skill-building on the job in operations roles, suggesting learning can be intense even when formal training is not highlighted.

The company does not publicly spell out structured onboarding, mentorship, buddy systems, or early-career learning curricula, which limits confidence that support is consistent across teams.

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Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

12.0

/ 20

The company lists salary ranges for some California-based roles in line with pay transparency requirements, which is a concrete positive for compensation clarity.

Redwood Materials’ benefits feedback repeatedly mentions health coverage and parental leave, alongside repeated comments that the company does not offer a 401(k) match, which can matter for long-term pay fairness.

The company’s internship roles are explicitly paid and full-time, but many postings outside California still rely on “commensurate with experience” language rather than publishing ranges.

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Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

11.5

/ 20

The company has mixed employee sentiment on major review platforms, with mid-range overall ratings and only a modest majority willing to recommend Redwood Materials as a workplace.

Redwood Materials has multiple public career histories showing internship or co-op stints leading into full-time roles, which is a practical early-career outcome signal.

The company has review-platform feedback pointing to weaker “job security and advancement” scores, and Redwood Materials does not publish promotion rates, internal mobility data, or early-career retention metrics.

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