DevOps Engineer with Firmware Experience

Title: Sr. Firmware/DevOps Engineer
Location: Berkeley, CA (Hybrid)
Duration: Contract-to-hire (6 months) 
Start Date: ASAP

Interview Process: 2-3 steps

Looking for someone heavily focused with  Devops/SRE experience.

Why It’s Open:

Form Energy is launching its first commercial iron-air Battery Energy Storage System sites, with 3–4 additional sites planned next year. They need a senior engineer to build the firmware deployment, cloud infrastructure, and site-reliability foundation required to scale from the first commercial sites to tens or hundreds of customers.

Mission:

Build and scale the firmware platform, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling used to deploy, monitor, update, and troubleshoot Form Energy’s connected battery systems.

This person will start as a hands-on individual contributor and eventually help build and lead the DevOps/SRE team. The role sits between firmware engineering and cloud infrastructure—it is not a traditional web-development position.

Responsibilities:

• Build infrastructure and tooling to test, release, deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot firmware.
• Manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Own CI/CD and production firmware-deployment pipelines.
• Develop platform services and automation using Python and Golang.
• Support connected controllers across commercial battery sites and production factories.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, incident-response, and reliability practices.
• Automate the setup and ongoing management of new customer sites.
• Troubleshoot issues across firmware, cloud infrastructure, networking, and connected hardware.
• Partner with Firmware, Systems, Manufacturing, and Site Operations teams.
• Provide technical leadership and help grow the team over time.

Must-Haves:

• 5+ years of firmware-platform, DevOps, SRE, or cloud-infrastructure experience.
• Experience supporting the build, release, deployment, or operation of firmware and connected devices.
• Strong production experience with  Kubernetes .
• Strong experience with  Terraform and infrastructure as code.
• Experience building and managing production  CI/CD pipelines .
• AWS cloud-infrastructure experience.
• Strong  Python and/or Golang development experience.
• Experience operating highly available production systems.
• Monitoring, observability, incident-response, and root-cause-analysis experience.
• Strong technical leadership with a willingness to remain hands-on.
• Ability to work onsite in Berkeley 3 days per week.

Nice-to-Haves:

• Embedded firmware or Embedded Linux experience.
• C or Rust development experience.
• IoT, connected-device, or distributed-controller experience.
• Experience supporting firmware deployments across large device fleets.
• Experience with “five nines” availability goals.
• Commercial-site buildout or commissioning experience.
• Energy storage, industrial, manufacturing, or physical-infrastructure experience.
• Previous experience building or leading a DevOps/SRE team.