Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

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 [... source excerpt omitted ...] people held back by fragile spreadsheets, manual handoffs, and software that doesn't exist yet. As a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, you are the person we send at those problems. You will embed directly with the teams that do Form Energy's hardest work — scientists, engineers, operators, and business leaders — find the highest-leverage problems in their world, and build the software and AI that solves them. One quarter that might be a governed system of record replacing a load-bearing spreadsheet; the next, an AI agent that removes a week of manual toil; the next, a full-stack application that becomes the way a team works. You will not wait for perfect requirements or hand off t [... source excerpt omitted ...] ets closed. This is a hybrid role, which will require working onsite from our office in Somerville, MA or Weirton, WV 3+ days per week. Relocation assistance is available. What you'll do: Embed with the teams you serve — across R&D, manufacturing, field and commercial operations, and the functions that support them — to understand their hardest problems firsthand, then design and build the software that solves them. Hunt for leverage and act on it. Diagnose where a team is bottlenecked by missing software, manual process, or brittle tooling; make the call on what's worth building; and deliver it. Exercising judgment about what to build is as much of this job as building it