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Staff Mechanical Engineer (Advanced Product Development)

Form Energy

Skills

Required

  • mechanical design
  • electromechanical or fluid/thermal systems
  • thermo-fluid systems
  • roll up sleeves

Preferred

  • energy storage
  • subsystem-level design
  • ramping toward production

Join Form's Advanced Product Development team as a Staff Mechanical Engineer. You will be responsible for developing the mechanical design of subsystems within our next-generation iron-air battery system. This role involves working closely with various engineering disciplines, building analytical models, executing prototype builds, and representing mechanical engineering in cross-functional design reviews. You will also have the opportunity to drive workflows using AI and champion safety in the lab.

Responsibilities

  • Assumer la responsabilité de la conception mécanique d'un ou plusieurs sous-systèmes (thermique, gestion des fluides ou structurel) au sein de systèmes de stockage d'énergie de nouvelle génération, depuis le concept jusqu'à la vérification du système.
  • Contribuer aux compromis à fort impact entre les interfaces des sous-systèmes - performance, coût, fabricabilité et fiabilité - en exerçant un jugement éclairé avec l'orientation des ingénieurs seniors/principaux sur les décisions les plus ambiguës.
  • Planifier et exécuter des prototypes de première génération et des campagnes d'essai pour valider les choix de conception au niveau du sous-système.
  • Demonstrated ownership of subsystem-level design — including trade-offs across thermal, fluid, and structural interfaces
  • Comfort operating with ambiguity in an early-stage environment ramping toward production, with urgency to hit demanding schedule targets

Requirements

  • Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field; Bachelor's with 7–10 years, or advanced degree with equivalent experience, in mechanical design of complex electromechanical or fluid/thermal systems
  • Strong first-principles grounding in thermo-fluid systems, with experience translating analytical models into design decisions
  • Growing technical leadership — comfortable guiding junior engineers or leading focused workstreams (may coordinate or lead the work of other engineers)
  • Experience taking components or subsystems from early-stage concept through manufacturing
  • Strong ownership mentality; eager to roll up sleeves and get hands-on with hardware when necessary

Preferred

  • Experience in energy storage, batteries, or another safety-critical, highly regulated hardware industry is a plus

Pay

USD 147,959 - 221,973