Senior Systems Architect

Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company revolutionizing energy storage with cost-effective, multi-day technology designed to keep the electric grid secure and reliable. We are hiring a Senior Systems Architect to help define and shape the architecture of a next-generation battery from the ground up.

About the role

Reporting into our Advanced Technology Product Architecture lead, you will own system-level architecture and concept evaluation for an early-stage R&D program. You'll build technoeconomic models and system tradeoff analyses to determine which product concepts we pursue. Working closely with product managers, battery scientists, materials engineers, and system engineers, you'll connect component-level design choices to whole-system performance and cost while testing critical assumptions in the lab. Relocation assistance is available.

Responsibilities

• Develop and apply technoeconomic models to evaluate competing product concepts and set the program technical direction.
• Partner with scientists and engineers across the product to deeply understand design options and quantify their impact on overall system performance and cost.
• Carry out mechanical design, analysis, and bench scale experiments to de-risk key assumptions and progress from ideation to proven concept.
• Communicate architecture decisions and tradeoffs across a widening set of partners — from science and engineering today to product management, finance, supply chain, and manufacturing over time.
• Establish and maintain the system-level requirements — capturing what the product must do, at what cost and performance — and cascade them to component and subsystem teams.

Requirements

• BS with 5+ years of experience (or an advanced degree with commensurate experience) in Mechanical, Electrical, or Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated systems-engineering experience — defining requirements, analyzing tradeoffs, and integrating components into a coherent whole.
• Strong physics-based modeling skills and ability to reason from first principles, with high fluency in core engineering fundamentals (mechanical, electrical, or chemical); experience with scientific programming is a plus.
• Complex hardware development experience — a background in batteries, electrochemical systems, or energy storage is ideal, but adjacent complex-hardware domains (e.g., automotive, aerospace, semiconductor) are equally welcome.
• Proven cross-functional collaboration and comfort with multidisciplinary, ambiguous problems — including the ability to hold productive technical conversations well outside your own domain of expertise.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.

Benefits

• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees (80% for dependents) starting on day one.
• At least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents (up to 20 weeks for birthing parents).
• Generous vacation policies.
• Competitive salaries and stock options.

Pay

Compensation Range: $111,880 - $160,807