Form Energy builds iron-air battery systems for the grid - long-duration energy storage designed to keep the lights on during multi-day stress events like extreme weather. The company is in high-volume manufacturing in West Virginia, and teams are scaling to match the physical reality of building a new industrial supply chain from the ground up. The threat model here isn't hypothetical: critical infrastructure, operational technology, and the convergence of IT systems controlling real-world energy assets all expand the attack surface as production scales.
For cybersecurity roles, that means the scope runs wide. Think OT security across manufacturing lines, protecting proprietary battery chemistry and process IP, securing supply-chain data flows, and hardening the engineering systems that bridge the physical and digital. Grid-facing software and control systems introduce their own exposure - uptime requirements are non-negotiable when your product exists to stabilize the electric grid itself.
The technical stack will involve energy storage engineering, battery manufacturing processes, and grid reliability domains. With the company actively growing, security is being built into systems while they're being built, not retrofitted after the fact. That's both the opportunity and the challenge: the surface area is expanding in real time, and the operational stakes are measured in megawatts, not just data.
