Director, Software & Firmware Engineering
Form Energy · Berkeley, CA
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## Director, Software & Firmware Engineering ### About Form Energy Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company revolutionizing energy storage with cost-effective, multi-day technology designed to keep the electric grid secure and reliable—even during extended periods of stress. As the company scales up battery manufacturing, you’ll help build the software and firmware that power deployed energy storage products. ### Role Overview Form Energy is seeking a **Director of Software & Firmware Engineering** to lead the organization responsible for the software and firmware that operate its energy storage products. Reporting to the **Senior Director of Software Engineering & Test Engineering**, you will oversee: - Embedded software and firmware - Commissioning and service applications - Engineering support across the deployed product lifecycle This role will shape the architecture, teams, and operating model behind a complex, software-enabled energy product with meaningful impact on the electric grid. **Relocation assistance is available.** ### What You’ll Do - Lead and develop engineering managers, senior technical leaders, individual contributors, and contractors across embedded software, firmware, systems engineering, manufacturing software, and fleet operations. - Establish an integrated engineering strategy across requirements, architecture, reusable product platforms, firmware delivery, deployment, and operational support. - Drive a **requirements-first** and **tooling-first** approach to software development, safety, security, compliance, and technical evidence. - Build reusable software/firmware platforms across operating systems, middleware, networking, device runtime, simulation, build systems, release tooling, deployment interfaces, and secure OTA delivery. - Lead product firmware delivery: integration, debugging, release readiness, system bring-up, rapid prototyping, fixtures, and engineering tools. - Oversee production rollout and operation of deployed software, including fleet observability, production SRE, OTA execution, commissioning/service applications, incident response, and long-term fleet reliability. - Ensure commissioning, service, field, product, and test organizations receive effective software/firmware support throughout the lifecycle. - Develop integrated staffing and execution plans; identify technical/organizational risks early; drive prioritization decisions across competing needs. - Partner with Product Management, hardware, controls, manufacturing, field operations, regulatory teams, Engineering Automation, and Product Quality. - Build an engineering culture focused on accountability, technical rigor, rapid learning, maintainability, modularity, reuse, and long-term fleet operability. ### What You’ll Bring - **15+ years** of experience in software, firmware, embedded systems, or product systems engineering, including significant experience leading managers and multidisciplinary engineering organizations. - Proven success delivering complex software-enabled physical products across architecture, implementation, integration, verification, production, deployment, and field operation. - Strong technical depth in embedded software/firmware, operating systems, middleware, networking, distributed systems, and hardware/software interfaces. - Experience establishing requirements, systems architecture, technical governance, verification strategy, and engineering processes across multiple t
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