Staff Characterization Chemist at Formenergy (Somerville, MA)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.

What you'll do:

• 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

What you'll bring:

• 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
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across teams, and work in a service-based team
• Preferred: demonstrated ability to manage technicians’ workflows with both high standards and high empathy

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Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy’s culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that. Form Energy offers competitive salaries, stock options, and a holistic benefits package to ensure all employees have what they need to thrive while working here.

When it comes to you and your family’s health, we cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees - and 80% of healthcare premiums for dependents. This starts from day one. We also offer at least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents (up to 20 weeks for birthing parents), and generous vacation policies to give employees time to recharge when needed.

To build America’s energy future, we need everyone at the table. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply to our open jobs.

If you may require reasonable accommodations to participate in our interview process, please contact accommodations@formenergy.com. Requests for accommodations will be treated with discretion.

Form Energy is committed to maintaining the privacy of our applicants. Please be aware that we will never solicit sensitive personal information such as Social Security numbers or bank account details during the recruiting or hiring process.