Senior Systems Architect

Role Description

Form Energy is hiring a Senior Systems Architect to help define and shape the architecture of a next-generation battery from the ground up. Reporting into our Advanced Technology Product Architecture lead, you will own system-level architecture and concept evaluation for an early-stage R&D program — building the technoeconomic models and system tradeoff analyses that determine which product concepts we pursue. Working shoulder-to-shoulder with product managers, battery scientists, materials engineers, and system engineers, you'll connect component-level design choices to whole-system performance and cost, while working in the lab to test critical assumptions. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape and be part of the growth of a fast-moving company with breakthrough technology and an incredible mission!

What You'll Do

• 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.

What You'll Bring

• 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.

Company Culture & Benefits

Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy’s culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that. Form Energy offers competitive salaries, stock options, and a holistic benefits package to ensure all employees have what they need to thrive while working here. When it comes to you and your family’s health, we cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees - and 80% of healthcare premiums for dependents. This starts from day one. We also offer at least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents (up to 20 weeks for birthing parents), and generous vacation policies to give employees time to recharge when needed.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply to our open jobs. If you may require reasonable accommodations to participate in our interview process, please contact accommodations@formenergy.com. Requests for accommodations will be treated with discretion.

Compensation Range

$128,662 - $160,807