Staff Embedded Systems Engineer

Are you ready to rise to the challenge of climate change with the team that will deliver? Form Energy is a U.S. technology and manufacturing company that is developing and commercializing pioneering energy storage technologies to enable the electric grid to run on 100% renewable energy, every day of the year.

Supported by leading investors such as Breakthrough Energy Ventures, ArcelorMittal, TPG Rise, MIT’s The Engine, and others, we share a common belief that low-cost, multi-day energy storage is the key to enable tomorrow’s zero carbon electric grid. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, we are deeply motivated and inspired to create a better world. We need talented, hardworking individuals who share our goal of tackling the challenge of climate change. Do you want to work with us today to build a better tomorrow? 

Role Description

Form Energy is hiring a Staff Embedded Systems Engineer to drive the development of a productized battery management and control system As part of our Controls  team, you will write the software for the control and telemetry of our Multi Day Storage battery system. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape and be part of the growth of a fast-moving company with breakthrough technology and an incredible mission!

What you'll do:

• Develop system software on embedded Linux platforms for real time control, connectivity, and telemetry.

• Manage the software development and delivery process through bring-up, integration, test and high volume manufacturing.

• Architect and specify the API protocols and client-server interfaces between Form’s cloud-based server and deployed edge-devices.

• Write software to interact with the battery systems, power electronics, EMS/SCADA systems, and downstream embedded controllers on site.

• Develop observability tools to instrument and understand our deployed software.

What you'll bring:

• 7+ years of experience in embedded software development.

• Knowledge of device drivers and kernel. Experience with Linux device tree, custom drivers, filesystems and board bring up.

• Experience with concurrency, exception/panic handling, service units (systemd), shell scripting, configuration files and security (selinux)

• Strong knowledge of a systems language. Go is preferred and used internally,  C/C++ or Rust is acceptable.

• Working knowledge of protocols such as  Protobufs, MQTT, GRPC as well as distributed databases and message queues

• Experience of interfacing embedded clients with AWS/ Azure IoT or similar cloud based solutions 

• High level of comfort with coding for the most part of your typical workday

• Excellent communication and organizational skills

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Besides joining a community of people working to make the world better, Form Energy commits to you equitable compensation, stock options, and offers a generous benefits package to make sure you have the support you need to thrive.

We cover 100% of employee premiums and 80% of dependent premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance for full time employees. We offer a flexible Paid Time Off program and every employee, regardless of gender identity or expression, is eligible for 12 weeks of paid parental bonding leave. A full listing of our benefits is available on our careers page. 

At Form Energy, we are working toward a 100% renewable energy future for everyone in the world. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees and are seeking to build a team that reflects the diversity of the people we hope to serve with our revolutionary products. Form Energy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.