Staff Controls Engineer
Form Energy · Berkeley, United States · 15d ago
Are you ready to build America’s energy future? Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company. We’re revolutionizing energy storage with cost-effective, multi-day technology designed to keep the electric grid secure and reliable, even during extended periods of stress. By strengthening the electric system and reimagining what’s possible, we’re giving clean energy a whole new form!
In recent years, Form Energy has earned a number of accolades, including being named by TIME as a “Best Invention”, MIT Technology Review as a “Top Climate Tech Company To Watch”, and Fast Company as “One of the Next Big Things In Tech”. We are making rapid progress on our mission of delivering energy storage for a better world, and our team is growing just as rapidly to meet demand. We have signed contracts with leading electric utilities across the United States and production of our iron-air batteries is underway at our first high-volume manufacturing facility in West Virginia.
Working for Form Energy is more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something extraordinary. And now - right as we significantly scale up battery manufacturing - might be the most exciting moment in the company’s history to join. We are assembling a team of highly talented and driven individuals across the country. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, our team is determined to deliver on our mission and transform the energy landscape for the better.
Feeling energized to make a meaningful impact on the world? Then keep reading - you’ve come to the right place.
Role Description
The Modeling and Controls team at Form is growing! Our team develops models and controls algorithms for our Multi-Day Energy Storage products that enable the optimization of system performance and cost. In this role, you will be leading the controls architecture and state management strategy, and establishing the software engineering practices that ensure our model-based controls are testable, maintainable, and production-ready. This team is part of our broader Hardware & Systems Engineering Org and interfaces with multiple engineering disciplines, which will give you the opportunity to shape the controls architecture from concept through deployment.
Relocation assistance is available.
What you'll do:
Author and maintain Concept of Operations documents that capture state machine behavior, inter-controller interactions, fault handling logic, and functional safety thresholds that serve as the specification for downstream implementation.
Design and implement hierarchical state machines that manage mode transitions, fault handling, and safety logic across multiple BMS controller levels.
Drive the model-based code generation workflow, ensuring generated C code is testable, maintainable, and meets the interface contracts defined for software integration.
Develop comprehensive test strategies spanning unit testing (individual state machines), integration testing (multi-controller interactions), coverage analysis, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) validation.
Travel to support controls bring-up and testing on prototype testbeds (limited).
What you'll bring:
3+ years of relevant experience with a PhD in Engineering or 5+ years with an M.S.
Demonstrated experience in classical control theory: feedback controllers, state observers, filters, state machine design etc.
Track record of delivering production-embedded code using model-based design tools (Simulink/Stateflow + Embedded Coder or similar).
Experience working on/with complex electromechanical systems.
Experience using Matlab/Simulink/Stateflow and version control using Git.
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Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy’s culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that. Form Energy offers competitive salaries, stock options, and a holistic benefits package to ensure all employees have what they need to thrive while working here.
When it comes to you and your family’s health, we cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees - and 80% of healthcare premiums for dependents. This starts from day one. We also offer at least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents (up to 20 weeks for birthing parents), and generous vacation policies to give employees time to recharge when needed.
To build America’s energy future, we need everyone at the table. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply to our open jobs.
If you may require reasonable accommodations to participate in our interview process, please contact accommodations@formenergy.com. Requests for accommodations will be treated with discretion.
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