Form Energy
Senior Staff Mechanical Design Engineer
$170K–$255K
Berkeley, CA · On-site · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- Bachelor’s with 12+ years, or Master’s/PhD with 10+ years, of industry experience in mechanical design of equipment or liquid or gas handling systems.
- Education
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
About the job
Leads the architecture, design, prototyping, validation, and production scaling of air handling systems for Form Energy’s iron-air batteries.
What you'll do
- Lead air handling system architecture, design, prototyping, and testing; oversee system models and first-of-a-kind prototype validation.
- Set high-volume production strategy and optimize designs for cost, scale, reliability, and performance.
- Lead cross-functional integration and mentor engineers while advancing mechanical engineering practices and laboratory safety.
What they ask for
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
- Deep expertise in first-principles modeling and design, and optimizing complex designs for high-volume manufacturing and cost reduction.
- Experience leading manufacturing-environment projects and managing strategic relationships with manufacturing engineering teams.
- Direct product-development experience in an early-stage environment ramping into production, with a record of driving technical strategy.
Pay
$170,246 – $255,381 USD base salary
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