Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will embed with teams across R&D, manufacturing, field, and commercial operations to identify and solve problems. You will design and build full-stack software and AI-driven automation tools to replace manual processes and fragile spreadsheets.

What you will do

• Embed with teams to understand and build software for their hardest problems
• Diagnose bottlenecks caused by missing software or manual processes
• Spearhead the adoption of AI-driven automation and AI-enabled tools
• Own full-stack web applications from data model to production deployment
• Turn expert knowledge and spreadsheets into durable software systems
• Build governed, traceable data models
• Integrate with enterprise systems like Snowflake, Oracle, Arena, and Jama
• Ship to production using containerized services and Kubernetes
• Use AI as a force multiplier in the development process
• Iterate quickly with users to harden prototypes into reliable software

Required qualifications

• 8+ years building and shipping production software
• Strong full-stack engineering skills in modern web frameworks (React / Next.js / TypeScript or similar)
• Production back-end language and framework (Python / FastAPI strongly preferred)
• Solid relational data modeling (PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy or equivalent)
• Demonstrated command of AI-assisted and agentic development
• History of walking into unfamiliar domains and shipping software
• Ability to model complex real-world domains in software
• Version control (Git)
• Automated testing
• CI/CD
• Containerized deployment (Docker)

Nice to have

• Experience as a forward-deployed, solutions, or embedded engineer
• Experience building agentic or AI-automation systems for real operational workflows
• Experience with operations research / optimization or simulation (linear / mixed-integer programming, discrete-event simulation)
• Experience with enterprise data platforms (Snowflake, dbt)
• Experience integrating with ERP (Oracle), PLM (Arena), MES, or requirements-management (Jama) systems
• Experience with enterprise identity / SSO (Microsoft Entra ID, OIDC)
• Fluency in a technical domain adjacent to Form Energy's work (hardware, manufacturing, energy, scientific computing, or laboratory/industrial environments)
• Experience in a high-growth technology or first-of-a-kind manufacturing environment
• Kubernetes

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 for birthing parents)
• Generous vacation policies
• Relocation assistance is available

About the company

Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company revolutionizing energy storage with multi-day technology. They are scaling production of iron-air batteries at their manufacturing facility in West Virginia.