Form Energy
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
$129K–$194K
Somerville, MA +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 6, 2026
- Location
- Somerville, MA
Weirton, WV - Experience
- 8+ years building and shipping production software.
About the job
Embeds with Form Energy teams to identify high-impact problems and build, deploy, and maintain software and AI tools that improve their work.
What you'll do
- Work directly with R&D, manufacturing, field, commercial, and support teams to identify needs and deliver software.
- Own full-stack applications and governed data systems from modeling through production deployment and ongoing operation.
- Build and drive adoption of AI-enabled tools and agents, following Form Energy’s AI-governance guardrails.
What they ask for
- 8+ years building and shipping production software, including end-to-end ownership of complex applications.
- Strong full-stack skills with a modern web framework and production backend language/framework; solid relational data modeling.
- Demonstrated use of AI-assisted and agentic development, and experience embedding AI/ML in applications or workflows.
- Engineering fundamentals including Git, automated testing, CI/CD, and containerized deployment.
Nice to have
- Experience as a forward-deployed, solutions, or embedded engineer.
- Experience building agentic or AI-automation systems for operational workflows.
Pay
$128,660 – $194,218 (USD; base salary)
Tools
React, Next.js, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build and deploy AI-enabled tools and agents to automate operational work, drive adoption among users, and use AI-assisted and agentic development to accelerate software delivery.
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