Staff Chemical Engineer

Role Description

Form Energy is hiring a Staff Chemical Engineer to join the Product Electrochemical Performance team. In this role, you will build on existing results to improve our electrolyte product integration process and help optimize the electrolyte workflow for Form Energy’s long-duration energy storage system. You’ll dive into hands-on lab work, working with the existing teams to design and run experiments with custom test fixtures to assess, understand, and improve the electrolyte product integration process. This role offers the chance to also work closely with chemical, materials, and mechanical engineers on the technology development team in the lab and to analyze their data.

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

• Establish a robust qualification process for electrolyte of our products in partnership with our vendors.
• Develop a strategy for maintaining and evaluating electrolyte specs in our product to ensure performance over lifetime.
• Design and execute experiments to understand and refine existing electrolyte product integration and maintenance.
• Characterize cells and individual components using solution-based or materials characterization techniques.
• Define decommission and passivation process across different scales.

What You'll Bring

• Advanced degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years industrial experience with product and process development effort in related fields.
• A safety-first mindset.
• Direct experience specifying experiment design, testing hypotheses, and interpreting results.
• Willingness to learn or ability to perform and interpret data from analytical techniques (e.g., cyclic voltammetry, UV-Vis, and titrations).
• Experience with aqueous electro-chemistry and related characterization techniques.

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.

Contact Information

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

$147,959 - $184,966