Senior Scientist

Number of employees

380

Somerville, MA, United States

Posted on: 2023-03-24

Category: renewables

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Full time

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Senior

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About the company:

Form Energy is developing a new class of cost-effective, multi-day energy storage systems that will enable a reliable and fully-renewable electric grid year-round. Our pioneering battery technology will entirely reshape the global electric system and give it new form.

Learn more about Form Energy at https://www.formenergy.com.  

We’re always looking for outstanding people to join our team. If you’re interested, please visit https://formenergy.com/careers/.

Are you ready to rise to the challenge of climate change with the team that will deliver? Form Energy is a U.S. technology and manufacturing company that is developing and commercializing pioneering energy storage technologies to enable the electric grid to run on 100% renewable energy, every day of the year.

Supported by leading investors such as Breakthrough Energy Ventures, ArcelorMittal, TPG Rise, MIT’s The Engine, and others, we share a common belief that low-cost, multi-day energy storage is the key to enable tomorrow’s zero carbon electric grid. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, we are deeply motivated and inspired to create a better world. We need talented, hardworking individuals who share our goal of tackling the challenge of climate change. Do you want to work with us today to build a better tomorrow? 

Role Description
The Additive Discovery team at Form is a small group of creative R&D scientists and engineers tasked with advancing performance improvements across all electrodes through the identification of new additives and development of model systems to advance the mechanistic understanding of our system.

We are seeking an experimental scientist to join the team at Form Energy. As a Senior Scientist on the Additive Discovery team, you will focus on developing new electrochemical screening methods for additives, applying your experience from battery R&D, electrolyte formulation development, high-throughput experimentation, or other electrochemistry work. In this role, you will use your hands-on lab experience in electrochemical, analytical, and materials characterization techniques to close performance gaps through hypothesis-driven testing, systematic root cause analyses, and creative mitigation strategy development. In addition to working collaboratively with a broader team of scientists, and engineers, you will have the opportunity to propose and lead projects on new research directions for additive discovery at Form.

This position offers an exciting opportunity to participate in cutting-edge research and development, where you will contribute to a sustainable future.

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Besides joining a community of people working to make the world better, Form Energy commits to you equitable compensation, stock options, and offers a generous benefits package to make sure you have the support you need to thrive.

We cover 100% of employee premiums and 80% of dependent premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance for full time employees. We offer a flexible Paid Time Off program and every employee, regardless of gender identity or expression, is eligible for 12 weeks of paid parental bonding leave. A full listing of our benefits is available on our careers page

At Form Energy, we are working toward a 100% renewable energy future for everyone in the world. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees and are seeking to build a team that reflects the diversity of the people we hope to serve with our revolutionary products. Form Energy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

What You'll Do:

  • Design and execute experiments to refine existing screening methods and develop new ones as needed
  • Characterize cells and individual components using solution-based or materials characterization techniques available through internal resources or external partners to build our mechanistic understanding of the system
  • Develop new electrochemical testing and characterization pipelines as necessary to accelerate cycles of learning toward mitigating component underperformance
  • Propose new directions for additive development building off literature techniques and your own ideas while considering potential trade-offs with other key components of the energy storage system 
  • Use JMP and Python scripts to quantitatively analyze and visualize data
  • What You'll Bring:

  • Ph.D. in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related field and some industry experience
  • Candidates with an MS or MSE plus three to five years of industry experience
  • Experience with electrochemical testing of battery additives and analytical or materials characterization of complex systems
  • Demonstrated success in developing a mechanistic understanding of process-property-performance relationships for engineering material systems
  • Creativity and attention to detail throughout the work scope
  • Safety-conscious attitude and experience working effectively in interdisciplinary teams
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