Manager, Cost Engineering

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 Form Energy is building the supply chain for a battery chemistry that has no existing supplier base. This role owns cost engineering for that build: the should-cost models, the benchmarking discipline, and the negotiation leverage that let Form make confident sourcing and design decisions before a market price exists to check them against. This is not a cost-tracking function. It is a strategic capability that sits at the intersection of engineering, sourcing, and finance, and shapes how Form designs, sources, and prices its product from the ground up. The right person has built or scaled a cost engineering function inside a manufacturing environment, is fluent in should-cost and activity-based costing methods, and knows how to turn a cost model into a negotiating position and a design decision, not just a report. Relocation assistance is available. WHAT YOU'LL DO: - Should-cost strategy and modeling. Build and continuously improve should-cost models for raw materials, fabricated components, and capital equipment, using activity-based costing, parametric modeling, and process-based cost breakdowns. Set the standard for how Form estimates cost before a supplier quote exists. - Benchmarking and market intelligence. Establish cost benchmarking practices against industry best practice in automotive, aerospace, electronics, and industrial manufacturing, adapted to a novel chemistry with a developing supply base. Track commodity, labor, and overhead trends that move Form's cost structure and bring that intelligence into sourcing and design decisions early. - Supplier negotiation leadership. Use cost models to evaluate supplier quotations, identify negotiation leverage, and lead or directly support high-stakes negotiations alongside Global Supply Managers. Hold suppliers to a standard of cost transparency, not just price. - Design-to-cost influence. Partner with product and manufacturing engineering early in the design cycle so cost is a design input, not a post-hoc audit. Translate cost model output into specific, actionable design and process feedback that changes outcomes. - Cross-functional cost visibility. Fe