Test Engineer II, Mechanical

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.

Feeling energized to make a meaningful impact on the world? Then keep reading - you’ve come to the right place.

Form Energy is hiring a Test Engineer to join our Test Engineering team. In this position, you will work closely with mechanical and structural design teams to develop custom test fixtures and testing campaigns for our iron-air battery systems. You will collaborate with internal teams and external labs to execute a range of mechanical qualification testing including structural, environmental, and durability testing as well as taking responsibility for data acquisition, processing, and reporting findings back to design teams.

This is a highly impactful, hands-on opportunity to join a growing team and establish the testing frameworks that ensure our revolutionary grid-scale technology survives real-world environments.

Relocation assistance is available.

• Test Strategy & Execution: Develop, execute, and own comprehensive qualification test strategies, running mechanical test campaigns including structural, environmental, and durability testing across battery modules, enclosures, and structural assemblies.

• Fixture Design & Analysis: Design and develop specialized test fixtures to mount and load test articles, and perform structural/modal analysis to validate fixture performance before physical testing.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner directly with structural, packaging, electrochemical, and mechanical design engineers to translate transportation, environmental, and field requirements into testable, repeatable specifications.

• Instrumentation & Data Acquisition: Instrument test articles with sensors such as accelerometers, strain gauges, and load cells, configure data acquisition systems, and apply relevant test standards (for example, MIL-STD-810) to create new component-level test profiles.

• Data Processing & Reporting: Analyze, post-process, and reduce test data to identify trends or anomalies, and generate detailed technical reports outlining pass/fail criteria and design recommendations.

• Lab Support & External Travel: Drive continuous improvement within the lab environment, support root-cause investigations when hardware fails, and travel when necessary to external test facilities to execute testing.

• Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering, or a related field, combined with 2-4 years of industry experience in structural hardware testing.

• Testing Hardware Literacy: Hands-on proficiency with electrodynamic or hydraulic shaker systems, shock testers, data acquisition hardware, and a solid understanding of structural dynamics…