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Leads Form Energy’s employer branding and talent marketing strategy through integrated campaigns, paid recruitment advertising, employee storytelling, digital content, recruiting events, partnerships, and social media initiatives. Partners with Talent Acquisition, People Operations, Communications, engineering, manufacturing, and hiring leaders to support workforce growth and hard-to-fill roles. Measures campaign performance and optimizes engagement and return on investment. This hybrid role requires onsite work three days weekly and travel of approximately 20%.

Develop and manage cost engineering processes for electromechanical products across their lifecycle. Create detailed estimates for mechanical, electronic, wiring, and assembly components; analyze CAD specifications, PLM data, BOMs, and manufacturing processes; identify cost drivers and reduction opportunities; build cost tools and databases with Finance; improve cost data reporting; and support make-versus-buy decisions.

Owns cost engineering for battery manufacturing, including should-cost models, activity-based costing, benchmarking, supplier cost negotiations, and design-to-cost decisions. The role partners with engineering, sourcing, finance, and executive leadership to guide sourcing and product decisions, establish cost methodologies, improve cost visibility, and build a cost engineering team and function from the ground up.

Develops and deploys automated electronic manufacturing test systems for PCBA and system-level products. Leads FCT and EOL test development, defines coverage and validation strategies, integrates test equipment and vendor fixtures, and performs FAT/SAT. Collaborates with electrical, firmware, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams during NPI and production ramp. Supports failure analysis, root-cause investigations, DFT improvements, MES/database integration, and continuous improvements to test automation, diagnostics, uptime, and manufacturing efficiency.

Leads the software and firmware engineering organization for Form Energy’s energy storage products. Oversees embedded systems, product applications, manufacturing software, fleet operations, deployment, OTA delivery, commissioning, service tools, reliability, and lifecycle support. Establishes architecture, requirements, governance, staffing, and execution strategies while developing engineering leaders and partnering across hardware, manufacturing, product, regulatory, quality, and field operations.

Lead reliability engineering for iron-air battery pack subsystems and deployed systems. Define reliability requirements, develop validation roadmaps, design accelerated lifetime experiments, investigate failure mechanisms, establish root causes, and guide design-for-reliability and DFMEA activities for electronics including PCBs, connectors, and bus bars. Provide technical leadership, mentor peers, collaborate cross-functionally, and champion safety.

Leads SEC and external financial reporting, technical accounting assessments, accounting policy development, audit coordination, SOX compliance, and complex transaction accounting. Manages reporting deliverables including 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, proxy statements, financial statements, and XBRL tagging. Partners with Legal, Investor Relations, FP&A, auditors, and executives while leading and developing the accounting team.

Design and implement memory-safe secure middleware and OTA update systems for edge controllers (C/C++/Rust). Architect DTN-based asynchronous protocols, build cryptographic disruption handling, and apply formal verification, static analysis, and adversarial threat modeling to ensure long-lived, zero-trust resilience against nation-state adversaries.

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.