Staff Electrical Engineer - Battery Test & Automation

Form Energy

Berkeley (CA)

On-site

USD 166,463 - 194,218

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries
Stock options
Holistic benefits package
Paid parental leave

Job summary

Form Energy is hiring a Staff Electrical Engineer to join our Test Infrastructure team. You will design and deliver test equipment enabling critical tests across our iron-‑air battery systems and supporting hardware.

A key focus is building out test automation hardware for our battery management system electronics, including control panels and simple PCBA, plus writing control software to simulate real-world hardware.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
  • 7+ years in electrical design or test equipment development
  • Experience with PCB/control panel/harness design tools (Altium/AutoCAD Electrical/EPLAN)
  • Experience with sensors, power electronics, data acquisition and control systems

Responsibilities

  • Design and build custom electrical test equipment to automate bring-up and testing of product hardware
  • Own hardware for reliability and UL test automation, simulating real-world hardware
  • Collaborate with design, reliability, and UL teams to implement test automation hardware
  • Develop software for test beds (Python) including control, automation and data acquisition
  • Architect test equipment for BMS verification and HIL systems for firmware testing
  • Diagnose product issues with hardware and software and implement fixes

Skills

Electrical design
Test equipment development
Python
PCB/Control panel design
Data acquisition
Hardware-in-the-loop
CAN/SPI/I2C protocols
Electrical safety

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium
AutoCAD Electrical
EPLAN

Job description

Form Energy is hiring a Staff Electrical Engineer to join our Test Infrastructure team. You will design and deliver test equipment enabling critical tests across our iron-‑air battery systems and supporting hardware.

A key focus is building out test automation hardware for our battery management system electronics, including control panels and simple PCBA, plus writing control software to simulate real-world hardware.

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