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 is determined to deliver on our mission and transform the energy landscape for the better. Feeling energized to make a meaningful impact on the world? Then keep reading - you’ve come to the right place.

Description Form Energy is scaling on every axis at once — research, first-of-a-kind manufacturing, field deployment, and the business that runs behind them — and everywhere it scales, the same pattern repeats: brilliant 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 to someone else to build. You go where the leverage is, ship, and stay with what you built as it matters more. This is a hands-on, senior individual-contributor role for someone who wants their work measured in problems solved, not tickets 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.

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 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