Form Energy
Director, Software & Firmware Engineering
Berkeley, CA · Director · Full-time
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About the role
- This is an opportunity to shape the architecture, teams, and operating model behind a complex, software-enabled energy product with meaningful impact on the electric grid.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop engineering managers, senior technical leaders, individual contributors, and contractors across embedded software, firmware, systems engineering, manufacturing software, and fleet operations.
- Establish an integrated engineering strategy across requirements, architecture, reusable product platforms, firmware delivery, deployment, and operational support.
- Drive a requirements-first and tooling-first approach to software development, safety, security, compliance, and technical evidence.
- Build reusable software and firmware platforms spanning operating systems, middleware, networking, device runtime, simulation, build systems, release tooling, deployment interfaces, and secure OTA delivery mechanisms.
- Lead the organization responsible for product firmware delivery, integration, debugging, release readiness, system bring-up, rapid prototyping, fixtures, and supporting engineering tools.
- Ensure commissioning, service, field, product, and test organizations receive effective software and firmware support throughout the product lifecycle.
- Develop integrated staffing and execution plans, identify technical and organizational risks early, and drive clear prioritization decisions across competing product needs.
- Partner closely with Product Management, hardware, controls, manufacturing, field operations, regulatory teams, Engineering Automation, and Product Quality.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in software, firmware, embedded systems, or product systems engineering, including significant experience leading managers and multidisciplinary engineering organizations.
Compensation
- Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy's culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that.
Benefits
- Build a strong engineering culture centered on accountability, technical rigor, rapid learning, maintainability, modularity, reuse, and long-term fleet operability.
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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