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  • Form Energy, Inc
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Berkeley, CA

Responsibilities

  • Decompose and document architectures, state machines, and requirements for grid-scale battery energy storage systems from grid commands through battery-cell firmware.
  • Facilitate cross-functional design and implementation of distributed, fault-tolerant, safety-critical systems across controls, electronics, power systems, and software engineering.
  • Convert model-based systems engineering artifacts, functional-safety hardware-software interfaces, and interface-control documents into version-controlled data schemas.
  • Translate security specifications and functional-safety hazard models into verifiable execution contracts and deterministic rules.
  • Investigate and resolve system ambiguity through hands-on code analysis and cross-functional technical collaboration.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, embedded systems engineering, or product assurance, including 2+ years of technical leadership experience.
  • Demonstrated delivery of complex production-grade embedded systems, safety-critical hardware/software, or service-oriented architectures at scale.
  • Strong capability in architectural design, failure and risk analysis, and near-real-time cross-functional technical communication.
  • Strong foundation in discrete logic, mathematical modeling, or formal specification, with experience implementing executable specifications using structured data schemas such as JSON Schema, Protobuf, YAML, or CUE.
  • Ability to collaborate with interdisciplinary stakeholders to deliver robust hardware/software designs under tight deadlines.
  • Preferred: experience reading bare-metal C code and performing diagnostic debugging with Wireshark, embedded debuggers, CAN, SPI, Ethernet, or Embedded Linux/MPUs.
  • Preferred: ability to decompose programmable-component safety requirements into software safety assertions and experience with formal specification tools such as TLA+.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and stock options.
  • 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees and 80% coverage of dependent healthcare premiums, starting day one.
  • At least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents and up to 20 weeks for birthing parents.
  • Generous vacation policies.
  • On-site role, as indicated by the #LI-Onsite designation.

Salary: $170k - $223k/yr

Form Energy, Inc

Form Energy, Inc. develops next‑generation energy storage solutions that enable reliable, low‑carbon power for the grid. By combining advanced chemistry with innovative engineering, the company delivers scalable batteries that can store hours of renewable energy and release it when demand peaks. ...

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