Forward Deployed Engineer, Battery Engineering

Ohm; California (MO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Ohm is seeking a battery-focused engineer to develop and ship core capabilities that deliver measurable ROI for our clients. You will write models, deploy them in production, and ensure their scientific validity in collaboration with battery engineering teams across customer accounts.

You'll work directly with the founder and Head of Engineering to identify high-impact problems, build platform capabilities, and translate advanced validation workflows into scalable production features with real

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in battery science, electrochemistry, or related field.
• Fluency in physics-based modeling or data-driven methods, with Python proficiency.
• Experience applying AI tooling to accelerate battery testing and validation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy battery models in live customer pipelines.
• Collaborate with customers to identify hard technical challenges and build platform capabilities.
• Create domain knowledge infrastructure for credible agentic features.
• Translate frontier validation workflows into production capabilities with measurable impact.

Skills

Battery engineering

Modeling fluency

AI-forward

Python

Education

MS/PhD in battery science or electrochemistry

Tools

Python

Job description

About Ohm

Ohm is an enterprise AI platform that helps Fortune 100 engineering teams transform how they develop, test, and validate physical products.

Cursor and Claude Code reimagined how software products are developed. Our mission is to address the next frontier: bringing that same shift to how physical products are developed.

Every complex physical product - a battery cell, an electric vehicle, a wearable device - is developed through a process that generates enormous quantities of data, almost none of which is used to its potential. This is precisely the kind of problem modern AI is suited to solve.

We are recruiting exceptional scientists, engineers, and operators to join our mission to reimagine how products are engineered in the next decade.

Ohm is backed by Y Combinator and other world-class investors, as well as serial founders and builders.

The opportunity

Your role is to develop and ship the technical capabilities that will deliver the greatest measurable ROI for Ohm's customers. You bring the domain knowledge to identify what to build, the engineering capability to build it, and the commercial instinct to prioritize the changes that compound customer value fastest.

You will work directly with the founder, the Head of Engineering, and the battery engineering teams at Ohm's customer accounts. You will write code, deploy models, and own the scientific validity of production systems.

What you'll do

• Build and own battery models at the core of Ohm's platform - deployed in live customer pipelines where their output drives real engineering decisions.
• Work directly with customers to understand their hardest technical challenges and then develop platform capabilities that close the gap.
• Build the domain knowledge infrastructure that makes Ohm's agentic features scientifically credible at the level of the most technically demanding customers.
• Bring frontier battery validation workflows into the platform before customers ask, translated into production capabilities with measurable customer impact.

What you'll need

• Battery engineering background. An MS, PhD or equivalent depth in battery science, electrochemistry, or a closely related field.
• Modeling fluency. Strength in at least one of physics‑based modeling or data‑driven methods (classical ML, Bayesian methods, Gaussian processes), with working knowledge of the other and a clear intuition for which problems call for which. You are fluent in Python
• AI-forward. You use AI coding tools as your primary workflow. You have thought carefully about where AI can accelerate battery testing and validation, and can give examples of how you are using AI to do so.

What will set you apart

• You have built architectures that combine physics-based and data-driven models, and understand the trade‑offs from experience
• You have shipped models or analysis in live production systems
• You have a point of view on where the field's standard approaches to battery development, testing, and validation are incomplete, and where modeling belongs in the development process

Wondering if you're a good fit? We believe in investing in our teammates, and value candidates who can bring their own diverse experiences to our teams, even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match. If some of what we've outlined above describes you, we'd love to hear from you.