Staff Data Engineer

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 and production of our iron-air batteries is underway at our first high-volume manufacturing facility 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.

Description Form Energy is hiring a Staff Data Engineer to build the data systems behind our deployed energy storage projects, turning real-time field telemetry into reliable, trustworthy data the rest of the company can build on. As a hands-on senior individual contributor and technical lead, you'll build and operate our operational-telemetry data products and independently lead the design of novel data solutions, raising the bar for data reliability and engineering practice by example. Your focus starts with commercial project operational telemetry and is likely to extend into manufacturing and R&D data over time, working within our data engineering group and partnering closely with field operations, hardware and controls engineers, and the analysts and application teams who depend on your data. 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! Relocation assistance is available.

Design, build, and operate the streaming and batch pipelines that turn real-time telemetry from deployed energy-storage systems into reliable, well-modeled, query-ready datasets, spanning ingestion, transformation, storage in open table formats, and serving to downstream consumers. Take a lead role across the operational-telemetry data products, building on and extending the core streaming platform rather than reinventing it. Independently lead the design of novel data solutions, producing technical design docs and RFCs and driving them to alignment across the data, applications, and field-facing stakeholders they touch. Model and serve time-series and event data for downstream analytics, monitoring, and applications, using open table formats (Iceberg / Delta Lake) and time-series stores. Build and maintain data orchestration (Dagster, Prefect, or Airflow) for workflows that are reliable, observable, and testable. Stand up and manage the AWS infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi and/or Terraform) your pipelines run on. Partner with field operations, hardware/controls engineers, and analytics/application consumers to translate operational needs into trustworthy, well-documented data. Share in an on-call rotation to keep ops-critical data flowing. Raise the engineering bar through code review, mentorship, and