Chemical Engineer, Electrolyte Management

Are you ready to build America’s energy future? Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company. We’re revolutionizing energy storage with cost-effective, multi-day technology designed to keep the electric grid secure and reliable, even during extended periods of stress. By strengthening the electric system and reimagining what’s possible, we’re giving clean energy a whole new form!

In recent years, Form Energy has earned a number of accolades, including being named by TIME as a "Best Invention", MIT Technology Review as a "Top Climate Tech Company To Watch", and Fast Company as "One of the Next Big Things In Tech". We are making rapid progress on our mission of delivering energy storage for a better world, and our team is growing just as rapidly to meet demand.

We have signed contracts with leading electric utilities across the United States and production of our iron-air batteries is underway at our first high-volume manufacturing facility in West Virginia.

Working for Form Energy is more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something extraordinary. And now - right as we significantly scale up battery manufacturing - might be the most exciting moment in the company’s history to join. We are assembling a team of highly talented and driven individuals across the country. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, our team is determined to deliver on our mission and transform the energy landscape for the better.

Form Energy is hiring a Staff Chemical Engineer to own our electrolyte management strategy for our iron-air battery. In this role, you will define how our aqueous electrolyte is managed across the full lifetime of a deployed system, transforming empirical data and electrochemical understanding into robust, scalable product standards. You will operate at the intersection of R&D and Manufacturing, partnering closely with both to develop strategies on electrolyte and set electrolyte specifications and management protocols.

This is a product-level ownership role grounded in operating r technical judgment will directly shape the operational excellence and long-term durability of our product, and Form's ability to deliver an energy storage solution for a reliable grid.

• Own the electrolyte management strategy across the product lifecycle, from initial fill through end-of-life decommissioning.
• Drive the technical strategy for refining, maintaining, and evaluating product level specifications to maximize performance over the battery’s operating lifetime.
• Maintain and update the specification over the system's operating lifetime based on new information from R&D and vendors, assessing their impact on product performance.
• Partner with vendors to architect and establish a robust qualification process for electrolyte integration into our multi-day storage systems.
• Define, validate, and scale safe decommissioning and passivation processes across multiple testing and production scales.
• Partner with Manufacturing to establish clear operating equipment specifications and process formulas, translating laboratory insights into reliable, scalable practices.
• Represent electrolyte strategy in cross-functional design reviews, influencing product and system-level decisions.

• Master's degree or PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related field.
• 6+ years of industrial experience leading product and process development efforts in related chemical or electrochemical fields.
• Deep technical expertise in product level electrochemistry or wet chemistry.
• Applied experience designing rigorous experiments, testing hypotheses, and interpreting complex data from analytical methods such as cyclic voltammetry, UV-Vis, and titrations.
• Comfort working across organizational boundaries, bridging R&D and Manufacturing perspectives to land decisions that work at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally and establish new methods and practices across diverse engineering teams.
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