Form Energy
Staff Mechanical Design Engineer, Structures
$148K–$222K
Berkeley, CA · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 8, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years industry experience in mechanical design and structural analysis.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
About the job
Performs structural analysis and design validation for utility-scale energy storage systems, helping optimize structures for reliability, manufacturability, weight, and cost.
What you'll do
- Analyze product designs using Ansys FEA and hand calculations; establish analysis methods and pass/fail criteria.
- Collaborate with designers and test engineers on test campaigns and design validation, including FEA-test correlation.
- Develop analysis tools, investigate failures, and present results in design reviews; travel up to 10%.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
- 7+ years industry experience in mechanical design and structural analysis.
- Experience leading complex mechanical structure design using Ansys FEA for dynamic, static, linear, and non-linear simulations.
- Proficient in DFMA for mass manufacturing and assembly, particularly sheet metal, stampings, and weldments; capable in SolidWorks modeling.
Nice to have
- Experience analyzing structures per ASCE 7-22 and AISC-360.
Pay
$147,959 – $221,973 (USD; salary type not specified)
Tools
Ansys FEA, SolidWorks, ASCE 7-22, AISC-360
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