Senior Staff Manufacturing Engineer, Assembly

The role

You will own the end-to-end manufacturing ecosystem for multi-megawatt battery systems. This involves building high-volume assembly lines from the ground up at a new facility.

What you will do

• Lead the strategy, selection, build, and deployment of assembly equipment.
• Partner with design engineers to shape battery cell designs for manufacturability.
• Select, negotiate with, and lead external equipment integrators and vendors.
• Install, commission, qualify, and ramp production line equipment.
• Design robust processes optimized for safety, uptime, and throughput.
• Lead rapid root-cause analysis for complex manufacturing issues.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of manufacturing, equipment, or automation engineering experience in electro-mechanical or battery assembly environments.
• Experience sourcing, buying, commissioning, and qualifying custom automated manufacturing lines from external integrators.
• Strong DFM/DFA background.
• Communication skills to influence and own design decisions.
• Comfort moving between high-level vendor strategy and hands-on debugging on the factory floor.
• BS in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

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.