Staff Modeling & Controls Engineer at Form Energy — Berkeley, CA

Role Description

The Modeling and Controls team at Form is growing! Our team develops models and controls algorithms for our Multi-Day Energy Storage products that enable the optimization of system performance and cost. In this role, you will be leading the development of these models and control algorithms along with helping shape the framework that the team operates within. This team is part of our broader Hardware & Systems Engineering Org and interfaces with multiple engineering disciplines, which will give you the opportunity to work on a diverse set of engineering problems ranging from air handling to thermal management and fluid systems.

Relocation assistance is available.

What you'll do

• Develop and validate physics-based dynamic models for a variety of systems: mechanical, fluids, thermal, etc. that tie into Form’s integrated system model.
• Develop control algorithms that optimize system performance and cost.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with mechanical, electrical, and firmware teams to translate system-level requirements into controls SW requirements and model specifications.
• Lead model validation campaigns by collaborating with test engineers to define instrumentation needs, collect test bed data, and close model-to-actual gaps through parameterization and verification.
• Drive product architecture trade studies to ensure an optimal system design.
• Travel to support controls bring-up and testing on prototype testbeds (limited).

What you'll bring:

• 3+ years of relevant experience with a PhD in Engineering or 5+ years with an M.S.
• Demonstrated experience in classical control theory: feedback controllers, state observers, filters, state machine design etc.
• Track record of delivering production-embedded code using model-based design tools (Simulink/Stateflow + Embedded Coder or similar).
• Track record of developing and validating multi-physics reduced-order models (thermal, fluids, electrical or similar).
• Experience working on/with complex electromechanical systems.
• Experience using Matlab/Simulink/Stateflow and version control using Git.

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