Formenergy
Senior Materials Scientist, R&D
Somerville, MA. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will develop and iterate new gas diffusion electrode formulations for iron-air technology. You will work on fabricating and characterizing electrodes to translate materials insight into cell-level electrochemical performance.
What you will do
- Develop and iterate new gas diffusion electrode formulations
- Apply and interpret physical and electrochemical characterization of existing and novel gas diffusion electrodes
- Identify improvement opportunities and propose and implement design iterations
- Coordinate gas diffusion electrode build-and-test campaigns
- Share daily electrochemical infrastructure maintenance
- Collaborate with electrochemical design and product architecture partners
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's + 4-7 years work experience
- Master's degree + 2 years work experience
- PhD with degree in Materials Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or related fields
- Demonstrated experience developing and characterizing porous, coated, or multiphase materials, such as gas diffusion electrodes, fuel cell GDLs or catalyst layers, battery electrodes, membranes, filtr
- Working knowledge of characterization techniques, such as SEM, mercury or nitrogen porosimetry, helium pycnometry, and contact angle
- Hands-on proficiency with electrode or coating fabrication processes (e.g. extrusion, spray coating, wet coating)
- Experience collecting and interpreting electrochemical data (e.g. EIS, polarization)
- Excellent communication, organizational, and collaboration skills
Benefits
- Competitive salaries
- Stock options
- 100% medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees
- 80% healthcare premiums for dependents
- At least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents
- Up to 20 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents
- Generous vacation policies
- Relocation assistance
About the company
Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company. They are developing multi-day energy storage technology to keep the electric grid secure and reliable.