Form Energy

Form Energy

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

Somerville, MA · Staff+ · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 31 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactNext.jsFastAPIFull-Stack DevelopmentPostgreSQLSnowflakeKubernetesCI/CDdbtERPResearch

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Form Energy, Inc. obtained a prevailing wage determination for Mechanical Engineers in Berkeley, CALIFORNIA on 2026-06-22. No matching green-card filing appears in our data yet. The determination expires in 13 days (2026-09-19), and a green-card filing must follow before then or the employer starts over.

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About the role

  • As a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, you are the person we send at those problems.
  • 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 go where the leverage is, ship, and stay with what you built as it matters more.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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 well.
  • Spearhead the adoption of AI-driven automation in the functions you're embedded with - prototype and ship AI-enabled tools and agents, and drive real adoption with the people who will use them, all within the guardrails set by Form Energy's independent AI-governance function.
  • Own applications end to end: full-stack web applications (e.g., React / Next.js / TypeScript front ends, Python / FastAPI back ends, PostgreSQL) that become governed systems of record and decision-support tools - from data model through UI to production deployment and the users who depend on them.
  • Turn expert knowledge into durable software - take the spreadsheets, notebooks, and tribal knowledge that a team runs on and turn them into correct, maintainable, owner-attributed systems that the organization can trust and build on.
  • Build governed, traceable data models: versioned, append-only revision history with role-based access, so the assumptions and records that drive decisions are defensible and reconstructable.
  • Integrate with Form Energy's enterprise systems - the Snowflake data platform (read-only reference data), enterprise applications (Oracle, Arena, Jama, and others), and shop-floor / operational systems - respecting each system's authoritative boundary and never writing into systems you don't own.
  • Ship to production reliably: containerized services, CI/CD, and deployment on Form Energy's internal Kubernetes platform, with the observability, testing, and documentation needed to operate what you build.
  • Use AI aggressively as a force multiplier in how you build - AI-assisted and agentic development - to deliver more, faster, and at higher quality than a conventional engineering approach would allow.

Nice to have

  • Experience with operations research / optimization or simulation (linear / mixed-integer programming, discrete-event simulation) - a strong plus for the harder modeling problems you'll meet.
  • Experience with enterprise data platforms (Snowflake, dbt) and the discipline of read-only vs. writable system boundaries.
  • Experience integrating with ERP (Oracle), PLM (Arena), MES, or requirements-management (Jama) systems.
  • Experience with enterprise identity / SSO (Microsoft Entra ID, OIDC).
  • Fluency in a technical domain adjacent to Form Energy's work - hardware, manufacturing, energy, scientific computing, or laboratory/industrial environments.
  • Experience in a high-growth technology or first-of-a-kind manufacturing environment.
  • This starts from day one.
  • Requests for accommodations will be treated with discretion.

Compensation

  • Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy's culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that.

Company info

  • 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 are assembling a team of highly talented and driven individuals across the country.
  • We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply to our open jobs.
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