Form Energy
Senior Staff BESS Operations Engineer
Berkeley, CA · Staff+ · Full-time
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About the role
- The Senior Staff Engineer operates at the critical intersection of product engineering, commercial strategy, and real-time operations.
- You will be responsible for managing the day-to-day dispatch, performance, and revenue optimization of our utility-scale Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) portfolio.
- You will translate complex physical asset constraints, including battery state of health, inverter limits, operational constraints, and degradation curves, into dynamic market bidding and revenue-stacking strategies across wholesale energy markets.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Reliability Engineering to integrate degradation modeling into dispatch logic.
- Lead or support root cause analyses (RCA) for major operational incidents, distilling technical findings into actionable improvement plans.
- To build America's energy future, we need everyone at the table.
- Are you ready to build America's energy future?
Requirements
- Proficiency analyzing high-frequency operational time-series data using Python, SQL, or MATLAB.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, or a related quantitative engineering field.
Compensation
- Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy's culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that.
Benefits
- Experience balancing market revenue with long-term asset health.
- 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.
- 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.
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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