Form Energy
Staff Reliability Engineer
$148K–$194K
Somerville, MA · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 16, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of hands-on industry experience in product development and hardware reliability.
- Education
- Degree in Engineering or a related field.
About the job
Improves the reliability and lifetime of Form Energy’s iron-air battery cells through testing, analysis, and cross-functional design and manufacturing collaboration.
What you'll do
- Lead design-for-reliability work for critical battery components, including mentoring peers and guiding DFMEAs.
- Develop reliability requirements, test plans, experiments, and accelerated life tests; analyze results to identify failure mechanisms and predict lifetime.
- Use reliability data to guide cell and electrode designs and collaborate with Manufacturing, Process, and Quality teams to improve product reliability.
What they ask for
- Degree in Engineering or a related field.
- Hands-on industry experience in product development and hardware reliability.
- Expertise in reliability test plans, accelerated life tests, and statistical data analysis.
- Strong understanding of reliability and quality fundamentals, plus ability to independently run experiments through root cause analysis.
Pay
$147,959 – $194,218 USD (base salary)
Tools
JMP, Python, Minitab, Reliasoft
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