<p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Peak Energy</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Job Title:</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> Head of Hardware</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Location:</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> Burlingame, CA</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Department:</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> ESS Engineering</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Reports To:</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> CTO</span><span data-contrast="auto"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Position Type:</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> Full-time</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 2">About Peak Energy</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134245418":true,"134245529":true,"335559738":299,"335559739":299}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Peak Energy is the first American venture to advance globally proven Sodium-Ion battery systems as the storage standard for the new era of renewable energy on a resilient grid.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Sodium-Ion is cheap, readily available and safe, making it the leading contender in a rapidly evolving market.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Our leadership team is powered by decades of expertise in scaling gigawatt-level innovation at world-class companies such as Tesla, Northvolt, Apple, Powin, Enovix, Zipline, Solid Power, and Fluence. We are backed by strategic investment and product partners such as TDK Ventures and Eclipse Ventures.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We are a team of engineers, operators, entrepreneurs, and partners driven by a shared ambition to set the new performance standard for renewable energy and grid resilience.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}">About the Role - Head of Hardware</span></strong></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">Peak Energy is looking for a Head of Hardware to lead all aspects of hardware development for our ESS platform — including mechanical, structural, thermal, reliability, and test domains. It's the broadest scope on the engineering team. You'll set the direction and drive execution across subsystem design, integration, validation, and reliability, ensuring our hardware is safe, reliable, and ready for scale.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":300}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">You'll report to the CTO as one of the functional leaders on the engineering team, alongside Software, Programs, Cell, Systems, and Product.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":300}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">This is a role for a technical leader who wants to take a hardware product from prototype through production at scale. Peak is doing genuinely novel work, the world's first fully passive megawatt-hour-scale battery storage system, built on sodium iron pyrophosphate (NFPP) chemistry with no active cooling, no coolant loops, no fire suppression, and stackable modules. As we ramp toward Q1 2027 production at our Sacramento factory, this leader owns the hardware roadmap from B2 through the first year of commercial production.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":300}"> </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="none">What You'll Do (Responsibilities)</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":320,"335559739":80}"> </span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"singleLevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="List Bullet">Serve as the technical lead for all ESS hardware.</span></span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":40,"335559740":300}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"33