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Staff Platform Engineer
Form Energy INC · 🇺🇸 Berkeley, CA
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 17 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 1 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Form Energy INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles2 certified filings for “Senior Staff Mechanical Engineer” (Mechanical Engineers) in CA: $176k–$240k, median $208k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Form Energy INC
The US Department of Labor certified 17 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 1 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Are you ready to build America’s energy future? Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company. We’re revolutionizing energy storage with cost-effective, multi-day technology designed to keep the electric grid secure and reliable, even during extended periods of stress. By strengthening the electric system and reimagining what’s possible, we’re giving clean energy a whole new form! In recent years, Form Energy has earned a number of accolades, including being named by TIME as a “Best Invention”, MIT Technology Review as a “Top Climate Tech Company To Watch”, and Fast Company as “One of the Next Big Things In Tech”. We are making rapid progress on our mission of delivering energy storage for a better world, and our team is growing just as rapidly to meet demand. We have signed contracts with leading electric utilities across the United States and production of our iron-air batteries is underway at our first high-volume manufacturing facility in West Virginia. Working for Form Energy is more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something extraordinary. And now - right as we significantly scale up battery manufacturing - might be the most exciting moment in the company’s history to join. We are assembling a team of highly talented and driven individuals across the country. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, our team is determined to deliver on our mission and transform the energy landscape for the better. Feeling energized to make a meaningful impact on the world? Then keep reading - you’ve come to the right place. ROLE DESCRIPTION Our Engineering Automation & AI Toolchain team builds the internal developer platform that consists of Formation (our GitOps-driven internal developer platform), Patina (the toolchain and developer-experience layer) and Manifold (the configuration and telemetry pipeline that ties them together). The design problem to solve is running it efficiently, comprehensively, and accurately, which means Day-2 operations engineered to hold up against company growth, product maturity, and the entropy that accumulates in anything left running. We are seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to own that problem: migrating a live legacy estate onto the platform, extending its reach into the parts of the company and toolchain it does not serve yet, and designing the operational regime that keeps all of it honest as it scales. Relocation assistance is available. WHAT YOU'LL DO: - Lead migrations from legacy infrastructure to modern platforms, through decommissioning. - Design migration strategy, including sequencing, cutover, rollback, and validation. - Minimize disruption to dependent teams and turn one-off migrations into repeatable patterns. - Extend the platform to new teams and toolchains, defining and documenting integration patterns. - Design Day-2 operations for capacity, upgrades, and lifecycle at future scale. - Build auditing for configuration drift, dependency currency, and secret/certificate lifecycle. - Maintain and review IaC, pipeline, and configuration standards. - Design monitoring and alerting, and define SLOs with internal customers. - Lead complex incident response and drive postmortems to structural fixes. - Build automation and agent workflows with appropriate guardrails and human review. - Codify expertise into runbooks and tooling others can run. - Share technical leadership on design reviews, key decisions, and platform initiatives. - Mentor junior engineers and delegate effectively. - Partner with IT, Security, Data, and operations teams. - Write design docs, decision records, and standards. - Implement security and compliance controls, and automate audit evidence. - Model and fo