Senior Systems Architect for Next‑Gen Battery Tech

Form Energy; Weirton (WV); On-site; USD 111,880 - 160,807; Full time

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Job summary

Form Energy is hiring a Senior Systems Architect to define and shape the architecture of a next-generation battery from the ground up. You will own system-level architecture and concept evaluation for an early-stage R&D program, building technoeconomic models and conducting trade‑off analyses to decide which concepts to pursue.

Reporting to the Advanced Technology Product Architecture lead, you will work with product managers, battery scientists, materials engineers, and system engineers to

Qualifications

• Demonstrated systems-engineering experience—defining requirements, analyzing tradeoffs, and integrating components into a coherent whole.
• Strong physics-based modeling skills and ability to reason from first principles.
• Experience with complex hardware development in energy storage, batteries, or related fields.
• Proven cross-functional collaboration and ability to navigate ambiguous multi-disciplinary problems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and apply technoeconomic models to evaluate competing product concepts and set the program technical direction.
• Partner with scientists and engineers across the product to understand design options and quantify impact on system performance and cost.
• Carry out mechanical design, analysis, and bench-scale experiments to de-risk key assumptions and progress from ideation to proven concept.
• Communicate architecture decisions and tradeoffs across a widening set of partners, from science today to product management and manufacturing.
• Establish and maintain system-level requirements and cascade them to component teams.

Skills

Systems engineering

Physics-based modeling

First principles reasoning

Cross-functional collaboration

Hardware integration

Education

BS in Mechanical/Electrical/Chemical Engineering

Advanced degree (relevant field)

Job description

Form Energy is hiring a Senior Systems Architect to define and shape the architecture of a next-generation battery from the ground up. You will own system-level architecture and concept evaluation for an early-stage R&D program, building technoeconomic models and conducting trade‑off analyses to decide which concepts to pursue.

Reporting to the Advanced Technology Product Architecture lead, you will work with product managers, battery scientists, materials engineers, and system engineers to