Jobs at Form Energy

Owns the fabricated metal parts category and develops global sourcing strategies. Responsibilities include researching markets, identifying and qualifying suppliers, negotiating contracts and pricing, reducing costs, optimizing logistics, analyzing manufacturing costs and risks, forecasting market trends, and managing supplier relationships. The role collaborates with leadership, supply chain, engineering, and strategic teams in a hybrid Berkeley, California environment.

Design, prototype, test, and validate next-generation iron-air battery subsystems and components for high-volume manufacturing. Lead instrumentation, data collection, trial analysis, verification testing, and data-driven design iteration. Apply heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and mechanics fundamentals while collaborating cross-functionally to move energy storage systems from concept through mass manufacturing.

Design, prototype, test, and validate next-generation iron-air battery subsystems and components for high-volume manufacturing. Responsibilities include instrumentation, data collection and analysis, verification testing, trial execution, and data-driven design iteration. The role applies heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and mechanics fundamentals while collaborating cross-functionally to develop energy storage systems from concept through mass production.

Design, prototype, and test subsystems of the hydrogen management system for iron-air batteries. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, engage vendors, validate designs via prototyping and testing, and transition systems to high-volume manufacturing while championing safety and manufacturing cost/quality optimization.

Design, prototype, validate, and release mechanical components and systems for high-volume battery manufacturing. Lead CAD, drafting, BOMs, change management, DFMEA, supplier communication, manufacturing transitions, compliance testing, and prototype line bring-up. Collaborate cross-functionally to optimize manufacturability, weight, performance, cost, reliability, and engineering rigor.

Track and analyze material costs, maintain bill of materials cost data, support purchase approvals, monitor spend against budgets, and report supply chain financial performance. The role includes scrap tracking, cost-savings analysis, KPI preparation, variance commentary, and cross-functional collaboration with Accounting, Logistics, and Global Sourcing Managers in a manufacturing startup environment.

Develops and validates analytical methods for battery component quality, product qualification, root-cause investigations, and production readiness. The role includes experimental design, method optimization, validation, measurement system analysis, technician training, instrument troubleshooting, and corrective-action leadership. It partners with engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and operations teams to reduce variability, improve measurement reliability, and strengthen production control plans across sites.

Supervise and develop production warehousing teams, improve inbound receiving and putaway processes, maintain inventory accuracy, coordinate lineside material delivery, oversee transfers between production sites, establish standard operating procedures, track operational KPIs, and enforce safety and quality standards. The role requires close collaboration with engineering, supply chain, quality, and production teams in a high-volume battery manufacturing environment.

Designs, sources, and commissions automated high-volume battery assembly systems, including conveyance, joining, welding, robotics, vision, and inspection. Leads design-for-manufacturability efforts, maintains DFMEAs, manages risk, and coordinates manufacturing engineers and controls partners. Owns project timelines, budgets, requirements, commissioning, and production handoff while guiding equipment and automation decisions.

Develops and qualifies cathode prototypes on a battery process development line. Responsibilities include designing experiments, characterizing materials, applying statistical process control, troubleshooting deviations, installing and qualifying equipment, creating SOPs and control plans, transferring processes to manufacturing, guiding technicians, and leading safety analyses. The role requires hands-on equipment and workstation testing, supplier collaboration, battery manufacturing knowledge, and process development experience.

Leads the operational function supporting deployed energy storage systems, including fleet monitoring, incident response, field triage, engineering escalation, and production support. Builds automated processes, diagnostic tooling, on-call operations, and readiness requirements for new releases. Partners across software, firmware, controls, hardware, data, cloud, field service, and customer teams to improve reliability, availability, observability, and recovery while scaling support for a growing commercial fleet.

Conduct electrochemical testing on iron electrodes and battery cells, build prototype cells, prepare and characterize materials, troubleshoot testing protocols, maintain cells, and organize and analyze test data. The role supports anode technology development in a hands-on laboratory environment, with responsibilities growing toward independent problem-solving and method improvement.

Lead electrode engineering programs from prototyping through mass production for iron-air batteries. Manage design release schedules, supplier fabrication, procurement coordination, technical risks, milestones, and cross-functional execution across engineering, manufacturing, operations, and supply chain teams. Improve program management systems, facilitate decisions, and communicate progress and risks to stakeholders throughout the organization.

Leads supplier industrialization strategy for electromechanical and power conversion assemblies, including PCBAs, wire harnesses, electrical panels, and skid-level builds. Manages and develops Supplier Industrialization Engineers, establishes PPAP/APQP and SCAR/CAPA frameworks, resolves supplier quality issues, manages capacity and performance, and partners cross-functionally on sourcing and technology roadmaps. Requires 20–30% travel to supplier sites for audits and process-readiness validation.

Leads end-to-end industrialization and quality accountability for custom wire harnesses and cable assemblies. Owns PPAP and APQP, defines manufacturing standards, resolves production and field issues, manages supplier performance, applies DFM/DFA principles, and conducts supplier audits and source inspections. The role requires deep expertise in harness manufacturing, electrical testing, connector systems, and high-voltage applications, with approximately 20% travel.

Develop and optimize multiphysics models for next-generation iron-air batteries. Collaborate with R&D and Battery Engineering teams to identify model-to-data gaps, support AI agent workflows for large-scale model deployment, and lead development of a front-end interface enabling engineering teams to interact with the models.

The Staff EHS Engineer will manage daily environmental, health, and safety operations at an engineering and testing facility and nearby prototype sites. Responsibilities include developing EHS programs and training, conducting risk assessments and job hazard analyses, leading pre-startup safety reviews, reviewing HAZIDs and HAZOPs, supporting chemical and industrial hygiene programs, coordinating emergency response and safety committees, investigating incidents, and promoting a strong safety culture.

Own integrated schedules for capital construction and tool installation programs. Develop critical-path schedules, integrate multiple workstreams into master plans, track progress against baselines, identify risks, support recovery planning, facilitate schedule reviews with project teams and contractors, and prepare reports and dashboards for leadership.

Designs and owns air delivery subsystems for utility-scale iron-air batteries. Responsibilities include system architecture, fluid-flow modeling, prototyping, testing, design verification, cost optimization, manufacturing transition, vendor leadership, actuator and sensor integration, safety certification support, and mentoring junior engineers.

Design, develop, commission, and integrate automated manufacturing equipment and electromechanical control systems for battery production. Responsibilities include PLC architecture, sequence-of-operations development, electrical analysis, control panel and schematic design, sensor and actuator selection, controls programming, robotics and vision integration, equipment characterization, and production handoff. The role requires collaboration across controls, process engineering, and manufacturing operations in a high-volume environment.