Jobs at Form Energy

Develop and deploy automated Functional Circuit Test and End-of-Line manufacturing test systems for PCBA and system-level products. Define test strategies, coverage, acceptance criteria, and validation methods; integrate fixtures and equipment with vendors; execute FAT and SAT; provide Design-for-Test feedback; support NPI, failure analysis, root-cause investigations, and manufacturing ramp activities. Collaborate with electrical, firmware, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams while improving test automation, diagnostics, reliability, and efficiency.

Build and lead Form Energy’s Employee Relations function, including investigation processes, case management, policies, reporting, and escalation frameworks. Manage a complex, high-volume caseload; conduct legally sound investigations; advise senior leaders and People Partners; coach managers; identify systemic risks through ER analytics; and collaborate with Legal and other People teams. The role is hybrid in Weirton, WV or Somerville, MA and requires travel to company locations.

Develop and execute sourcing strategies for PCBA and electronic components used in iron-air battery systems. Manage strategic suppliers, contract manufacturers, negotiations, pricing, lead times, supplier KPIs, tier-two materials, and production scaling. Analyze market conditions, supplier capacity, technology roadmaps, and supply-demand risks while partnering with leadership, engineering, and supply chain teams. The hybrid Berkeley role requires approximately 30% domestic and international travel.

Design and validate industrial control panels for high-voltage battery systems. Responsibilities include schematic, layout, and BOM development in EPLAN; component selection; NEC and UL 508A compliance; vendor coordination; high-voltage testing; mechanical integration; and DFMEA support. The role requires electrical engineering knowledge, panel design experience, high-voltage safety expertise, and familiarity with power conversion, protection coordination, PLM, product development, and requirements management tools.

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, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Own a strategic sourcing category, including supplier relationships, contracts, raw materials, and sub-tier vendors. Develop sourcing strategies, identify and qualify global suppliers, negotiate pricing and lead times, assess supply-chain risks, monitor markets and supplier capacity, and collaborate with leadership, engineering, and supply-chain teams. The role requires strong commercial judgment, technical learning ability, negotiation expertise, and global travel.

Lead electromechanical design for high-voltage battery power systems including busbars, cables, harnesses, isolation, grounding, enclosures, and safety interlocks. Perform thermal, structural, and manufacturability analyses, run RCAs, create drawings and manufacturing instructions, and take designs from concept to high-volume production while collaborating across engineering teams and supporting test-stand safety.

Manage real-time dispatch, performance, and revenue optimization for a utility-scale BESS portfolio. Develop market bidding and revenue-stacking strategies while accounting for battery health, inverter limits, degradation, and grid requirements. Monitor SCADA, EMS, PCS, and BMS data; coordinate maintenance and fault resolution; troubleshoot operational issues; review dispatch results; and lead root cause analyses. Serve as the liaison among market operators, engineering, reliability, and field service teams.

Lead full-cycle recruiting for niche mechanical, electrical, and hardware engineering roles. Partner with executives and hiring managers, build data-driven talent pipelines, provide hardware talent-market intelligence, improve hiring processes, conduct creative outreach, and manage complex offer negotiations. The role requires strategic influence, hands-on execution, strong technical recruiting expertise, and onsite work in Berkeley two days per week.

Build and operate streaming and batch data pipelines for energy-storage telemetry. Design reliable, query-ready time-series and event datasets using open table formats, orchestration frameworks, AWS, and infrastructure-as-code. Lead technical designs, partner with field operations and engineering teams, support on-call operations, and mentor engineers while improving data reliability and engineering practices.

Manage and develop Form Energy’s purchasing systems ecosystem, serving as the primary ZipHQ administrator. Responsibilities include configuring workflows and user roles, managing integrations and APIs with ERP, Jira, and procurement systems, supporting supplier punchout catalogs, troubleshooting system issues, coordinating with Finance and IT, implementing new capabilities, and training end users.

Leads engineering for utility-scale energy storage projects from conceptual design through commissioning and commercial operation. Responsibilities include balance-of-plant design, single-line diagrams, permitting, interconnection, procurement, construction RFPs, technical issue resolution, field quality checks, commissioning support, and coordination with project managers, product teams, EPC partners, clients, and authorities having jurisdiction. Travel to project sites may reach 30%.