Jobs at Form Energy

Lead integration of battery management system hardware and embedded software for iron-air energy storage systems. Decompose system requirements, manage interface control documentation, and oversee HIL-based validation and integration testing. Drive DFMEA and CFMEA activities, resolve interface issues, maintain system architecture, and ensure safety and reliability from prototype through production. Mentor engineers and promote V-model and ASPICE systems engineering practices.

Leads electrical, software, and controls test planning and execution for battery systems across cell, module, and integrated multi-pack assets. Validates BMS hardware, firmware, plant software, control algorithms, communications, telemetry, and safety interlocks. Troubleshoots hardware and software anomalies using schematics, harnesses, logs, and control scripts; analyzes test data and produces reports. Manages electrical safety requirements and laboratory standards.

Leads onsite mechanical and fluidic testing for battery-system test assets, including structural loading, vibration, seismic, pressure, leak, and flow validation. Develops test plans from engineering requirements and DFMEAs, deploys instrumentation, executes tests, investigates mechanical anomalies, processes telemetry data, validates data integrity, and reports actionable findings. Enforces laboratory safety, pressure-vessel, chemical-handling, LOTO, and 5S standards.

Design and develop mechanical components and assemblies for battery cells and enclosures from concept through high-volume production. Lead failure analysis, prototyping, design verification, tolerance analysis, and manufacturing transitions. Collaborate with vendors, manufacturing engineers, and cross-functional teams while applying sheet metal design, heat transfer, mechanics, and design-for-manufacturing principles.

Leads and grows a mechanical engineering team designing battery electrode assemblies for high-volume manufacturing. Responsibilities include white-page and sustaining engineering, hands-on prototyping, cross-functional optimization of performance, manufacturability, assembly, cost, and reliability, FEA/CFD analysis, verification testing, and production transition. The manager mentors engineers and collaborates with manufacturing, supply chain, vendors, and technical operations.

Leads supplier industrialization for sheet metal components from concept through production. Responsibilities include DFM and APQP reviews, QML and PPAP execution, tooling and process maturation, schedule risk mitigation, supplier corrective actions, process audits, quality management, and continuous improvement. Partners with design, manufacturing, and program teams to improve manufacturability, cost, quality, yield, and supplier performance.

Designs and validates molded plastic and sheet metal components for iron-air battery cells. Responsibilities include mechanical analysis, prototyping, failure analysis, validation testing, technical drawing release, and collaboration with manufacturing, battery module, and electrode teams to support high-volume production.

Build and operate a shared AI platform for internal application development, governed data access, knowledge retrieval, MCP infrastructure, agent orchestration, model evaluation, and cost optimization. Establish AWS infrastructure, security controls, observability, governance, and automated workflows supporting R&D, manufacturing, and engineering teams. Lead technical designs, mentor engineers, and collaborate with scientists and operators in a hybrid onsite role.

Own the end-to-end industrialization of plastic components from design through high-volume production. Lead supplier selection, DFM reviews, tooling qualification, APQP, PFMEA, control plans, process capability audits, PPAP approval, and corrective actions. Collaborate with design engineering and global suppliers to ensure manufacturability, quality, capacity, delivery, and production readiness.

Develop and execute sourcing strategies for battery system components, including electrical and mechanical parts. Manage strategic supplier relationships, contract and pricing negotiations, lead times, escalations, and cost analyses. Monitor markets and technology roadmaps to mitigate supply risks and support scale-up. Collaborate with leadership, supply chain, engineering, and strategic sourcing teams to drive category strategy and supplier performance.

Own supplier-level program execution for hardware component accounts across NPI and sustaining production. Manage forecasts, capacity planning, order status, data quality, supplier performance, logistics, and risk recovery. Coordinate with supply management, engineering, quality, manufacturing, finance, and logistics teams; lead supplier reviews, reporting, onboarding, corrective actions, and cross-functional issue resolution. The role requires travel to supplier sites up to 50% of the time.

Lead technical ownership of semi-manual and automated manufacturing equipment and robotic cells to ramp iron-air battery production. Define OEE and performance metrics, provide DFM/DFA feedback, drive cross-functional controls and process alignment, lead root-cause analysis, stabilize production, and mentor multidisciplinary teams to improve reliability and throughput.

Lead process data analysis and optimization for battery manufacturing production lines. Build analytics tools, automated data collection systems, dashboards, and reports; apply statistical methods to improve output, yield, quality, efficiency, and downtime. Collaborate with process and equipment engineers to troubleshoot issues, recommend process or equipment changes, and improve data accessibility and reporting.

Designs and builds standard and custom mechanical test vehicles for iron-air battery research. Creates CAD models and engineering drawings, fabricates prototypes, develops tools and fixtures, collaborates with technicians and scientists, and improves assembly reliability. Manages multiple projects, follows lab and shop safety practices, and documents hardware for fabrication and testing.

Provides legal support for commercial energy projects from development through operations, including drafting and negotiating contracts, managing grants and tax credits, developing scalable contract processes, maintaining intercompany agreements, and overseeing corporate entity matters. Partners with commercial, finance, tax, and internal teams while advising on complex transactions, compliance, and business risks. The role requires at least 10 years of transactional legal experience, a JD, and active state bar membership.

Design and validate industrial control panels across their full lifecycle, including component selection, schematics, layouts, bills of materials, vendor coordination, high-voltage testing, and functional validation. Ensure compliance with NEC and UL 508A standards, collaborate on enclosure and thermal integration, and support DFMEA risk mitigation. The role requires cross-functional work with mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, and third-party fabrication teams.

Own high-fidelity CFD and transient thermal modeling for iron-air energy storage systems, spanning electrochemical cells to containerized systems. Validate simulations against test data, automate optimization workflows, analyze fluid routing and cooling efficiency, resolve thermal-fluid integration issues, select modeling methods, standardize workflows, and develop custom tools to address simulation limitations. Translate complex modeling results into system-level design requirements and guide multidisciplinary engineering decisions.

Own mechanical subsystem design for next-generation iron-air battery systems, covering thermal, fluid-handling, and structural components. Develop first-principles models, prototype and test novel designs, optimize manufacturability and cost, and guide systems through verification. Collaborate with battery, materials, electrical, controls, manufacturing, compliance, and program teams while engaging vendors and mentoring engineers. Champion safety and use AI-enabled workflows in a fast-paced, production-scaling environment.

Designs and validates PCBAs and electrical systems for high-power battery storage applications across the full lifecycle, including requirements, component selection, schematics, layouts, vendor DFM, bring-up, verification, sustaining, and troubleshooting. Collaborates with mechanical, firmware, manufacturing, and test teams while ensuring safety, reliability, compliance, and documentation standards.

Lead migration of legacy infrastructure to modern internal platforms, design reliable Day-2 operations, extend platform integrations, and establish monitoring, SLOs, security controls, audit automation, and cost forecasting. The role includes complex incident response, postmortem-driven improvements, infrastructure and delivery standards, AI-assisted automation with guardrails, technical leadership, mentoring, documentation, and cross-functional partnership.