Electrical Engineer, Test Infrastructure

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 Staff Electrical Engineer to join our Systems Test team. In this role you will be responsible for the design and delivery of test equipment that enables the execution of critical tests across our iron-air battery systems and supporting hardware. The scope of your work will range from simple electrical characterization setups to building out our system-level validation test beds at the deployment scale.

In this role, you will bridge the gap between heavy industrial power distribution, custom automated test equipment (ATE), and precision instrumentation. You will be the technical lead responsible for turning complex validation requirements into rugged, safe, and highly reliable physical test assets in service of the broader Product Engineering organization.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the scaling of our battery technology and be part of the growth of a fast-moving company with breakthrough technology and an incredible mission! Relocation assistance is available.

• Lead the end-to-end electrical design of supporting test infrastructure (instrumented server racks, automated test equipment, power distribution panels, and safety interlock subsystems) required to run validation profiles on massive pack- and quad-pack scale test assets.

• Architect and layout industrial control panels (utilizing Beckhoff PLCs, EtherCAT I/O modules, and safety controllers) in strict compliance with UL 508A and NFPA 79 standards to manage multi-pack physical assets.

• Integrate high-power DC programmable power supplies, regenerative electronic loads, and battery simulators capable of safely cycling heavy multi-pack systems.

• Collaborate closely with Test and Product Engineering teams to translate system-level test cases (e.g., thermal-runaway mitigation, multi-pack balancing, cross-current transients, and state-machine verification) into physical, automated test infrastructure designs.

• Implement isolated sensing and grounding schemes to ensure noise-free instrumentation in high-voltage, high-current, and highly inductive switching environments.

• Lead the physical bring-up, dry-run debugging, and commissioning of newly engineered test racks and panels in the engineering lab and on the factory floor.

• Facilitate the commissioning and bring-up activities associated with pack and multi-pack test assets.

• Familiarity with BMS architecture, communication protocols (CAN, SPI, I2C, etc.), and firmware test methodologies preferred.

This role is based at Form Factory 1 in Weirton,…