Battery Safety & Abuse Test Engineer

Base Power; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Base, America’s next-generation power company, is seeking a Test Engineer to join the Safety and Abuse team focused on testing in-house designs for safety and compliance. This role is hands-on at a satellite lab near Austin, TX, working with batteries, inverters, high-voltage systems, and data acquisition equipment.

You will design and run safety/abuse tests, evaluate systems with DFMEA, own test setups, capture data, and write world-class reports.

Qualifications

• 3 years of designing and running tests on electrical equipment.
• Experience with working around lithium ion batteries / high voltage / DAQ systems.
• Hands on experience with battery thermal runaway is a plus.
• UL 9540 / UL 1973 exposure a plus.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate systems for safety using DFMEA and similar tools.
• Design test setups and execute safety and abuse testing, including: Thermal runaway testing of batteries; Short circuit testing of batteries and inverters; Switch interruption testing (at full voltage).
• Own the safety of safety/abuse test setups.
• Find and manage space to execute safety and abuse testing.
• Set up data acquisition for all safety/abuse tests, including thermocouples, voltage/current measurement, accelerometer measurement.
• Write world class test reports.

Skills

Electrical test design

DAQ systems experience

Battery safety testing

Tools

DAQ hardware

Job description

Base, America’s next-generation power company, is seeking a Test Engineer to join the Safety and Abuse team focused on testing in-house designs for safety and compliance. This role is hands-on at a satellite lab near Austin, TX, working with batteries, inverters, high-voltage systems, and data acquisition equipment.

You will design and run safety/abuse tests, evaluate systems with DFMEA, own test setups, capture data, and write world-class reports.