Formenergy
Manager, System Integration & Test
Berkeley, CA. Posted a month ago
The role
You will lead a multi-disciplinary team of mechanical, electrical, and software test engineers. You will own the end-to-end testing workflow and strategy for system-level verification and validation across integrated test assets.
What you will do
- Lead, mentor, and grow a multi-disciplinary team of mechanical, electrical, and systems test engineers
- Own the strategy, test definition, and campaign execution for system-level requirement verification and validation
- Oversee DFMEA risk-mitigation testing and burn-down programs across integrated test assets
- Direct system-level testing across electrical, power, networking, communications, and battery management systems
- Own key technical deployment gates to greenlight hardware transitions
- Manage issue logging, root-cause analysis, and failure triage using the Form Issue Tracker
Required qualifications
- B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related technical discipline
- 8+ years of engineering experience in system integration, hardware verification, or test engineering
- 2+ years of direct people management leading engineering teams
- Deep technical background in complex multi-physics systems
- Direct experience managing requirements-driven testing, DFMEA risk-mitigation burn-down, and hazard/safety verification
- Hands-on expertise with power conversion systems, high-voltage DC architectures, industrial communication buses, and automated test software/HIL framework integration
- Proven track record of cross-functional alignment, executive-level status reporting, and managing risk escalations
Nice to have
- Experience with grid-scale energy storage certification standards (e.g., UL 9540A, UL 1973, UL 991, UL 1998)
- Direct experience operating Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) or physical integrated system test beds
- Proficiency with Atlassian toolsets (JIRA, Confluence) and Python/MATLAB/LabVIEW test automation ecosystems
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
About the company
Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company revolutionizing energy storage with multi-day technology. They are scaling battery manufacturing at their first high-volume facility in West Virginia.