Staff Characterization Chemist

Form Energy is hiring a Staff Characterization Chemist to own and develop advanced characterization methods to tackle emerging questions about our product.This role reports into our characterization team. As part of our characterization team, you will work closely with our engineering teams to identify big open questions; explore how characterization can address these questions; and develop, validate, and maintain characterization methods. You will also work closely with technicians on our team to ensure that characterization requests are tracked and processed quickly and with exceptional data quality. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape and be part of the growth of a fast-moving company with breakthrough technology and an incredible mission!

Relocation assistance is available.

Collaborate with teams across the company to identify big questions, and develop & apply characterization to answer them

Own and maintain characterization services for our colleagues related to wet chemistry, elemental identification such as ICP-OES or MS, and spectroscopy

Work closely with one or more technicians, and enable them to perform daily measurements by managing incoming tasks, working with vendors to maintain instruments, and providing analysis to guide how the data is interpreted

Act as a technical leader across characterization and as ambassador to other teams

Bachelor's degree and a significant number of years of related work experience (ex. 7-10); a Master’s degree and multiple years of work experience; or a PhD with some work experience

Expertise in the majority of: ICP-OES and/or MS, titration and related wet chemistry techniques, thermomechanical techniques like TGA/DSC, and vibrational spectroscopy

Demonstrated ability to define and solve complex problems that may not have significant background data available