Forward Deployed Engineer - Battery

This role combines deep battery expertise with strategic impact - you'll solve complex battery challenges while shaping Ohm's product roadmap and driving measurable business outcomes.

Key responsibilities

Own the end-to-end integration and implementation strategy for our enterprise customers: develop battery models, coordinate stakeholders, deliver training and technical support, and serve as customers' trusted technical advisor

Drive business impact: Ensure customers achieve measurable value (faster R&D, improved workflows) that leads to platform expansion and renewals

Build strong technical relationships: Partner with customers through regular calls and on-site visits to optimize platform adoption, while translating their needs into engineering priorities

Test the product relentlessly to identify bugs, optimize workflows and ensure Ohm consistently delivers the expected customer experience

What we’re looking for

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in STEM with battery research experience OR B.S./M.S. in STEM with 2+ years working with battery data in industry (cell manufacturers, automotive OEMs, etc.)

• Strong Python skills and experience building battery models

• Experience with generative AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.)

• Confidence analyzing time-series data and communicating battery science insights (degradation mechanisms, anomaly detection)

• You’ll thrive if you:

• Excel at troubleshooting with exceptional attention to detail

• Have strong organizational skills to manage multiple requests and drive initiatives to completion

• Are relentless about understanding and delivering what creates customer value

• Push for excellence and move fast with AI-first workflows

• Are not above getting into the weeds of a problem to help customers get more value from Ohm

What we offer

• An opportunity to work in person in San Francisco with a lean team dedicated to building something great together

• Flexible PTO - we trust you to balance rest with the high intensity of an early-stage startup

• Team off-sites to bond, create and build

• Platinum health, vision, dental

• Key success milestones for this role

• Within 7 days

• Develop a deep understanding of how the Ohm platform works and customer use cases, joining customer calls

• Ship your first customer-facing work - respond to a customer query, and/or build a simple analysis that a customer will benefit from

• Test an Ohm feature end-to-end, understand the use case and identify a change that would drive value for our customers

• Within 30 days

• Begin supporting customers as a program manager and technical contact

• Find and deliver multiple improvements to the Ohm product

• Build and deploy a custom battery analysis/workflow that unlocks measurable customer value

• Run a demo or training session that drives platform adoption

• Within 90 days

• Have shipped enough customer value that customers can point to specific examples of how Ohm accelerated their R&D or manufacturing timelines

• Drive measurable business impact: accounts expanding, customers renewing, or direct revenue influence

• Confidently represent Ohm on-site with customers