Data Platform Engineer

Form Energy is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to join their hybrid Software Engineering team in Somerville, MA. The role involves building and maintaining data infrastructure that supports battery scientists in lab workflows. Responsibilities include enhancing data pipelines, developing data tools, and collaborating with engineering teams. This position offers an opportunity to contribute to innovative energy storage solutions within a rapidly growing company focused on transforming the energy landscape.
Are you ready to build America’s energy future? Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company. We’re revolutionizing energy storage with cost-effective, multi-day technology designed to keep the electric grid secure and reliable, even during extended periods of stress. By strengthening the electric system and reimagining what’s possible, we’re giving clean energy a whole new form!

In recent years, Form Energy has earned a number of accolades, including being named by TIME as a “Best Invention”, MIT Technology Review as a “Top Climate Tech Company To Watch”, and Fast Company as “One of the Next Big Things In Tech”. We are making rapid progress on our mission of delivering energy storage for a better world, and our team is growing just as rapidly to meet demand. We have signed contracts with leading electric utilities across the United States. Trial production of our iron-air batteries has already begun, and this year, production will take off to high volumes at our new factory in West Virginia.

Working for Form Energy is more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something extraordinary. And now - right as we significantly scale up battery manufacturing - might be the most exciting moment in the company’s history to join. We are assembling a team of highly talented and driven individuals across the country. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, our team is determined to deliver on our mission and transform the energy landscape for the better.

Feeling energized to make a meaningful impact on the world? Then keep reading - you’ve come to the right place.

Role Description

The Software Engineering team at Form develops innovative internal and customer-facing tools that touch every part of Form’s product and company. We’re hiring a Data Platform Engineer for our Data Platform team, which is responsible for building and maintaining common data infrastructure and applications used across the company. This role will focus on building and supporting the systems that enable our battery scientists to execute lab workflows and consume test data, including data pipelines, downstream data tools, and our web-based applications for managing experiment metadata. 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!

This role is hybrid out of one of our three locations.

What you'll do:
• Build upon our laboratory data pipeline to meet evolving battery testing requirements and improve data reliability and quality
• Develop and/or integrate data tools and systems. This could range from building a system for custom metrics development, to migrating business logic to a new platform, to developing a custom UI for data observability
• Monitor and optimize the use of cloud infrastructure and software-as-a-service providers
• Collaborate closely with members of Form’s battery engineering and R&D teams to deeply understand their needs and provide enablement and support
• Act as a collaborative member of a distributed software engineering team

What you'll bring:
• 2+ years of professional software engineering industry experience, including developing and maintaining systems in production environments
• Highly collaborative work style, marked by deep user empathy and curiosity
• Fluency in Python and SQL
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS (S3, RDS, EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch)
• Data engineering and analytics engineering experience a plus, including experience with one or more of the following: Kafka, Spark, Dagster, dbt, Snowflake, and Databricks
• Excitement for learning about the following (or bonus points for experience!): batteries, renewable energy, scientific research

Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy’s culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that. Form Energy offers competitive salaries, stock options, and a holistic benefits package to ensure all employees have what they need to thrive while working here.

When it comes to you and your family’s health, we cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees - and 80% of healthcare premiums for dependents. This starts from day one. We also offer at least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents (up to 20 weeks for birthing parents), and generous vacation policies to give employees time to recharge when needed.

To build America’s energy future, we need everyone at the table. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply to our open jobs.