Senior Electronics Test Engineer – UL 991 & BMS Validation

Form Energy; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 128,662 - 160,807; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Form Energy is hiring a Senior Electronics Test Engineer to lead UL certification efforts for BMS PCBA hardware. You will architect automated tests, design fixtures, and generate rigorous test data to ensure functional safety and regulatory compliance across our battery systems.

You will work with hardware, firmware, systems, and compliance engineers to validate designs, scale battery technology, and support a fast-growing company on a mission to transform energy storage.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years of PCBA hardware testing experience.
• 3–5+ years of hands-on UL certification work (UL 991/1998 or IEC61508/ISO13849).
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 2+ years using Python to write automated test scripts.
• Hands-on experience with test instrumentation and environmental chambers.

Responsibilities

• UL Certification Ownership: act as EE technical lead with a compliance engineer for product safety certification on our BMS PCBAs, driving strategies to pass UL 991.
• Automated PCBA Functional Testing: architect, write, and execute end-to-end automated test plans for functional testing for use during compliance testing.
• Test Fixture Design & Development: design and assemble physical, automated test fixtures to interface with PCBAs under test, focusing on fault injection to validate PCBA safe state functionality after UL stress testing.
• Documentation & FMEA: generate rigorous test reports, maintain traceability matrices, and collaborate on FMEA to prepare data packages for UL auditors.
• Collaborate with design engineers to troubleshoot and root-cause hardware issues identified during testing.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, test cases, and results in accordance with product verification standards.
• Support design verification reviews and contribute to test readiness and completion criteria.
• Ensure tests are conducted in compliance with safety protocols and relevant industry standards.

Skills

PCBA testing

UL experience

Python scripting

Test automation

Hardware troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Power supplies

Data acquisition systems

Environmental chambers

Job description

Form Energy is hiring a Senior Electronics Test Engineer to lead UL certification efforts for BMS PCBA hardware. You will architect automated tests, design fixtures, and generate rigorous test data to ensure functional safety and regulatory compliance across our battery systems.

You will work with hardware, firmware, systems, and compliance engineers to validate designs, scale battery technology, and support a fast-growing company on a mission to transform energy storage.