Senior BMS Controls Engineer for Iron‑Air Storage

Form Energy; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Form Energy is hiring a Battery Management System (BMS) Controls Engineer to develop and implement dynamic battery models and control algorithms for our iron air stationary energy storage product.

This role reports to the Controls & Systems Modeling team within the Engineering organization; relocation assistance is available. You will collaborate with Core Technology, Controls, and Software teams to scale the control architecture across product generations.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in controls engineering or an advanced degree with relevant research experience.
• Experience with equivalent circuit or electrochemical battery models and state estimation (SOC, SOH, SOE).
• Proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink and Python for model development and data analysis.
• Strong foundation in dynamical systems, control theory, model-based design, and electrochemical principles.
• Strong intuition for battery physics, power electronics, and thermal dynamics.
• Excellent technical communication and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement and validate models in MATLAB/Simulink using model-based design.
• Own architecture and code generation of battery control algorithms in Simulink; collaborate with software for embedded deployment.
• Lead system identification experiments with battery echem teams.
• Define performance requirements and hardware interface specifications for the BMS algorithms.
• Support integration of BMS algorithms and plant models into a digital twin in Simulink.
• Travel to support bring-up and testing on prototype testbeds (limited).

Skills

MATLAB/Simulink

Python

Battery modeling

Controls engineering

System identification

Education

Advanced degree in related field

Job description

Form Energy is hiring a Battery Management System (BMS) Controls Engineer to develop and implement dynamic battery models and control algorithms for our iron air stationary energy storage product.

This role reports to the Controls & Systems Modeling team within the Engineering organization; relocation assistance is available. You will collaborate with Core Technology, Controls, and Software teams to scale the control architecture across product generations.