Test Engineer II - Mechanical Testing for Grid Battery

Form Energy; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Form Energy is hiring a Test Engineer to join the Test Engineering team. You will work with mechanical and structural design teams to create custom test fixtures and run qualification tests for our iron-air battery systems, including data acquisition and reporting findings to design teams.

This role emphasizes hands-on testing, collaboration across disciplines, and adherence to MIL-STD-810 standards, with relocation assistance available and opportunities to travel for external testing facilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering, or related field with 2–4 years of industry experience in structural hardware testing.
• Hands-on proficiency with electrodynamic or hydraulic shaker systems, shock testers, data acquisition hardware, and understanding of structural dynamics.

Responsibilities

• Develop, execute, and own comprehensive qualification test strategies, running mechanical test campaigns across modules, enclosures, and assemblies.
• Design and develop specialized test fixtures to mount and load test articles, and perform structural/modal analysis to validate fixture performance.
• Partner with structural, packaging, electrochemical, and mechanical design engineers to translate requirements into testable specs.
• Instrument test articles with sensors (accelerometers, strain gauges, load cells), configure data acquisition, and apply standards (e.g., MIL-STD-810).
• Analyze, post-process, and reduce test data, and generate detailed technical reports with pass/fail criteria and design recommendations.
• Drive lab improvements, support root-cause investigations, and travel to external test facilities when needed.

Skills

Test Strategy

Fixture Design

Data Acquisition

Python

MATLAB

Cross-functional Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Structural Engineering

Tools

Electrodynamic Shaker Systems

Data Acquisition Hardware

Structural/Modal Analysis

Job description

Form Energy is hiring a Test Engineer to join the Test Engineering team. You will work with mechanical and structural design teams to create custom test fixtures and run qualification tests for our iron-air battery systems, including data acquisition and reporting findings to design teams.

This role emphasizes hands-on testing, collaboration across disciplines, and adherence to MIL-STD-810 standards, with relocation assistance available and opportunities to travel for external testing facilities.