Senior Manager, Modeling, Simulation & Analysis at Form Energy — Berkeley, CA

Role Description

The Mechanical Engineering team at Form designs the battery cell, module, and system enclosure at the core of our utility-scale, multi-day energy storage system — optimized for performance, quality, reliability, and cost at high-volume manufacturing scale at Form Factory.

We're hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our newly formed Modeling, Simulation & Analysis team within the Electro-Mechanical Hardware organization — Form's center of excellence for structural and thermal/fluid simulation (FEA/CFD), mechanical architecture trade studies, and model validation. Your team's analyses will drive design direction before hardware is built, and correlate models against prototype and factory test data so we trust what the models tell us. You'll partner closely with EE, cell performance, system modeling, and reliability engineering, supporting design and build activities on prototype builds in Berkeley, CA and production lines in Weirton, WV.

This is a leadership role: you'll build and mentor the team while staying hands-on in models and reviews. The role reports to the Senior Director of Hardware and Systems Engineering, and will be based at our Berkeley, CA office.

What you'll do

• Build, manage, and mentor a team of thermal/fluids and structural analysis engineers as a player-coach
• Own structural, thermal, and fluid simulation (FEA/CFD) of Form's iron-air battery cell, module, and enclosure — from early architecture trade studies through production support
• Establish Form's model validation and correlation practice, tying simulation to prototype and factory test data
• Translate product requirements into analysis plans; use simulation results to drive design decisions early in the development cycle
• Collaborate with battery, electrical, chemical, systems, and reliability engineers to optimize designs for performance, cost, and reliability

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field with 12+ years of experience (advanced degrees count toward experience — many simulation leaders hold a PhD)
• Deep expertise in either thermal/fluids simulation (CFD/conjugate heat transfer) or structural analysis (FEA, static/dynamic) — with working fluency across both
• Hands-on mastery of commercial CAE tools (e.g., STAR-CCM+, Ansys Fluent/Mechanical/Icepak, Abaqus, COMSOL) and experience automating simulation workflows
• 5+ years of experience managing, building, and leading simulation/analysis (CAE) teams; and mentoring engineers
• Demonstrated model validation/correlation against physical test data
• Strong technical communication across functions and with external partners

Preferred Qualifications

• Mechanical design ownership of shipped hardware products, or experience in high-volume manufacturing environments
• Experience with batteries, energy storage, power electronics cooling, or other high-power thermal management
• Requirements definition and FMEA-driven development
• DoE / optimization-driven design exploration

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