Base Power Company

Austin, TX

Electronics Design Engineer at Base Power Company

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Posted about 2 months ago
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Company snapshot

Base Power Company

Base Power provides affordable and reliable home backup power solutions that significantly reduce costs compared to traditional generators, offering a seamless installation process and expert support for homeowners in select areas.

Utilities Energy Renewables & Environment Home Improvement
HQ
Austin, Texas, United States
Founded
2023

Quick Summary

Role Overview

The Electronics Design Engineer will lead the end-to-end design and validation of complex energy storage systems including inverters and batteries. This role involves taking hardware from initial schematic concepts through to high-volume manufacturing and field deployment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage end-to-end design of energy storage systems from specifications to PCB layout
  • Conduct board bring-up including debugging soldering and mechanical assembly
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transition products to high-volume manufacturing
  • Design and execute high voltage and high current validation for battery systems
  • Debug complex component interactions at the system level to ensure reliability
  • Oversee reliability and functional testing for all hardware components

Requirements Snapshot

  • Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent professional experience
  • Proficiency in digital and analog circuit design including high voltage systems
  • Experience with Altium for PCB design and hardware bring-up
  • Familiarity with embedded firmware microcontrollers and Python scripting
  • Knowledge of power semiconductors and automotive networking protocols like CAN

Expected Impact

By designing reliable and high-performance power electronics you will help transform a fragile centralized grid into a resilient distributed system. Your work directly contributes to the deployment of next-generation energy storage solutions that provide abundant and stable electricity.

A DesignJobs.World summary of the employer's posting, written to highlight scope, requirements, and fit (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Job Description

About Base

Base is America’s next-generation power company. We’re rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.

About the Role

We are looking for an Electronics Design Engineer with experience designing and validating complex electrical systems. You will be responsible for end-to-end design of Base’s energy storage systems—including inverters, batteries, and interconnect devices—through manufacturing and field deployment.

This role is ideal for someone who’s taken systems from schematic to production and knows how to debug and validate at the board and system level. You should be comfortable working with high voltage designs, embedded systems, and hardware validation in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. most reliable, cost efficient, high performance batteries and inverters in the world

What You'll Do

  • End-to-end ownership of energy storage systems (inverter, battery, Microgrid interconnect device) designs including specifications, architecture, schematic capture, PCB layout, board bring up, validation, and overseeing reliability and functional testing.

  • Collaboration with cross functional teams (mechanical, firmware, test, reliability etc.) to see products through high volume manufacturing.

  • Design and execute high voltage and high current validation of inverter, battery and BMS designs.

  • Debug complex component interactions at the system level.

What You'll Bring

  • Degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience.

  • Digital and analog circuit design, including high voltage circuits or power supply design.

  • Printed circuit board design (Altium) and initial bring-up: debugging, soldering, wiring, mechanical assembly.

  • Familiarity with embedded firmware, microcontrollers and their peripherals, python scripting or similar.

  • Familiarity with lab equipment including oscilloscopes, function generators, power supplies.

  • Experience with power semiconductors (MOSFETs, IGBTs).

  • Knowledge of electric motors, thermal design, and/or mechanical design.

  • Experience with automotive networking (CAN, LIN, Ethernet).

  • Basic control theory, including importance of sensor bandwidths, filtering.

Please note: Base is a startup, which means priorities shift and evolve quickly. Your role may expand or change based on the needs of the business at any given time, so the responsibilities listed may not be exhaustive.

Our Values

  • First Principles Thinking: Question assumptions. Principles > rules.

  • Operate at Base Pace: Focus on what matters, act quickly, and learn by doing.

  • Give & Get Feedback: Be direct, be humble, and maintain a growth mindset.

  • Everyone’s an Owner: Follow through on commitments and own results.

  • Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: Drive clarity and make calls with imperfect information.

  • Committed to the Mission: Rebuilding the grid is a big challenge. We work hard because we care deeply about the impact we’re creating. We work in-person. It’s not a 9-to-5. We are all-in.

  • Fun & Optimism Coexist with Grit: Collaboration and celebration coincide with the intensity of building real things.

Do the best work of your life at Base.

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