Battery Hardware Reliability Intern

Base Power; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Base invites a Hardware Reliability & Test Engineering Intern to join our Reliability and Test team in Austin, TX. You’ll design test fixtures, run validation experiments, and help feed lab findings back to design.

You’ll work with Python for data analysis, build automated test rigs, and support root-cause investigations of hardware issues, contributing to data-backed reliability documentation and helping strengthen the hardware platform as we scale.

Qualifications

• Current junior, senior, or graduate student in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Hands-on experience building or testing electromechanical hardware; personal projects count.
• Comfort with Python for data analysis.
• Familiarity with bench instruments: oscilloscopes, power supplies, multimeters, DAQ systems.
• Attention to detail and a high bar for documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design and build test fixtures and measurement setups for electrical, mechanical, and environmental validation of battery modules, inverters, and interconnect hardware.
• Build automated test rigs, configure and troubleshoot DAQ systems.
• Run accelerated life tests, thermal cycling, and environmental stress screening in our environmental chambers.
• Analyze test data in Python using scripts to automate data ingest, anomaly detection, and pass/fail evaluation.
• Support root cause and failure analysis on hardware issues, from visual inspection and solder rework to schematic-level investigation.
• Contribute to test reports and reliability documentation that tell a clear, data-backed story.

Skills

Python

Electromechanical hardware

Documentation

Attention to detail

Education

Electrical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Tools

DAQ systems

Oscilloscopes

Multimeters

Bench power supplies

Job description

Base invites a Hardware Reliability & Test Engineering Intern to join our Reliability and Test team in Austin, TX. You’ll design test fixtures, run validation experiments, and help feed lab findings back to design.

You’ll work with Python for data analysis, build automated test rigs, and support root-cause investigations of hardware issues, contributing to data-backed reliability documentation and helping strengthen the hardware platform as we scale.