Senior Battery Management System Controls Engineer at Form Energy — Berkeley, CA

Role Description

Form Energy is hiring a Battery Management System (BMS) Controls Engineer to develop & implement dynamical battery models and control & state estimation algorithms for the operation of our iron air stationary energy storage product. This role reports into our Controls & Systems Modeling team within the Engineering organization. You will contribute to the design and implementation of state machine logic, reduced order plant models, and core battery estimation & control algorithms in close collaboration with the Core Technology, Controls, and Software teams. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the control architecture that will scale across multiple product generations at a company with breakthrough technology and an incredible mission.

Relocation assistance is available.

What you'll do

• Implement and validate models in MATLAB/Simulink following model-based design best practices
• Own the architecture, implementation, and code generation of battery control algorithms in Simulink, and collaborate with software engineers for embedded deployment
• Lead system identification experiment design and execution in partnership with battery echem teams
• Define performance requirements and hardware interface specifications for the BMS algorithms
• Support integration of battery controls algorithms and plant models into a system-level digital twin in Simulink, in collaboration with the system modeling team
• Travel to support controls bring-up and testing on prototype testbeds (limited).

What you'll bring:

• 3+ years of experience in controls engineering or an advanced degree with relevant research experience
• Demonstrated experience with equivalent circuit or electrochemical battery models and state estimation algorithms (SOC, SOH, SOE)
• Proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink and Python for model development and data analysis
• Strong foundation in dynamical systems, control theory, model-based design, and electrochemical principles
• Strong intuition for battery physics, power electronics, and thermal dynamics
• Excellent technical communication and organizational skills

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