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Posted January 22, 2022
Form Energy Inc

Data Visualization Engineer, Formware

USA Remote Full Time

About Form Energy At Form Energy, we're building a world-class engineering culture of passionate and mission-driven people. We design and build...

About Form Energy

At Form Energy, we're building a world-class engineering culture of passionate and mission-driven people. We design and build hardware and software products to solve challenging problems with massive market impact, low-cost, multi-day energy storage systems that will enable reliable and fully renewable electric grids year-round.

Role Description:

We're in a phase of growth – join our team and make a difference. You'll be helping to position our breakthrough technology and accelerate our software adoption and be an early member of a growing software engineering practice that directly impacts climate change.

Our teams consist of FormwareTM, our flagship software, and is an optimization and modeling product. Opsware is a suite of applications and tools for our hardware products' design, manufacturing, test, distribution, ops management, and fleet management. And, TechData builds the data pipelines to capture machine-generated data and interfaces for our battery technology.

The Data Visualization Engineer is part of our FormwareTM Team. Early projects may include selecting our geospatial data stack, creating an app to help utilities understand how energy storage will impact their grid, or designing a complex visualization for a blog post.

What You'll Do:

  • Create reusable libraries and stand-alone data visualizations that convey the value of multi-day energy storage for a deeply decarbonized power grid
  • Build data-intensive web apps to guide our business development and uncover market opportunities
  • Collaborate with Product and other stakeholders to design new features and support a breadth of users
  • Nerd out about PPAs, CCAs, IRPs, LMPs, LCOEs, and ELCCs with energy market experts (ok if you're excited to learn!)
  • Advocate for software engineering and data visualization best practices across the company and lead by example
  • Act as a collaborative member of a distributed software engineering team
  • Passion for our mission, sustainability, and climate change

What You'll Bring:

  • Mid-to-senior level professional software engineering experience
  • Experience developing data-intensive software systems in Python, React, Typescript, and D3 (or similar)
  • Keen design sense, deep empathy with your users, and a knack for storytelling with data
  • A pragmatic approach to problem-solving that blends good judgment, clear communication, follow-through, and creative use of resources
  • Background in renewables, storage, or utilities, or strong desire to learn

Form Energy, where possible, embraces a digital work environment and supports onsite, hybrid, and remote types of work with office locations in Somerville, MA (Greater Boston), Berkeley, CA (San Francisco Bay Area), and Eighty Four, PA (Greater Pittsburgh).

Compensation, Benefits, and Perks

Form Energy is committed to equitable compensation and we offer a generous benefits package to make sure you have the support you need. We cover 100% of employee premiums and 80% of dependent premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance. 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. We offer a 401k and all employees are granted stock options. A full listing of our benefits is available on our careers page.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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.

This listing expired on Feb 21. Applications are no longer accepted.

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