Staff Electrical Engineer, PCB Design

The role

You will manage the full lifecycle of PCBA design including requirements, component selection, schematic and layout development, and verification. You will work cross-functionally to deliver PCBAs that meet safety and compliance standards for high-power and hazardous systems.

What you will do

• Manage full lifecycle of PCBA design from requirements to sustaining
• Ensure PCBA designs meet safety, reliability, and compliance standards
• Create requirements, DFMEA/CFMEA, electrical block diagrams, simulations, and analysis
• Develop schematics, layouts, bring-up/test plans, and 8D reports
• Work cross-functionally to define, design, and test PCBAs
• Support troubleshooting, maintenance, and continuous improvement of released designs
• Document design concepts, architecture, and root cause investigations

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field with 7+ years of relevant experience
• OR Master's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience
• Proficiency in PCBA design ECAD SW Altium or equivalent
• Hands-on experience with sensors, power electronics (high voltage, high power, AC, SMPS, LDO), processing (MCU, MPU, SOM), networking (Ethernet, CAN-FD, isoSPI), on board communication (SPI, UART, I2C
• Strong understanding of safety and compliance considerations in high-power and/or chemical environments
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Familiarity with PLM (e.g. Arena or Team Center), product development SW (e.g. JIRA) and requirement management tools (e.g. JAMA)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Nice to have

• battery or energy storage systems experience

Benefits

• 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

Before you apply

• 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 developing iron-air batteries to keep the electric grid secure and reliable.