Electrical Engineer

Base Power Company; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Base Power Company in Austin, TX, is seeking an Electrical Engineer to lead end-to-end design of energy storage systems, including inverters, batteries, and interconnect devices, through manufacturing and field deployment.

You'll work with hardware teams and apply your experience from schematic to production, debugging at board to system levels, and ensuring robust performance in high voltage environments. This startup role demands hands-on hardware validation in a fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• Digital and analog circuit design, including high voltage circuits.
• PCB design and initial bring-up (Altium), debugging and wiring.
• Experience with embedded firmware and microcontrollers; Python scripting.
• Familiarity with lab equipment: oscilloscopes, power supplies.
• Knowledge of power semiconductors (MOSFETs, IGBTs) and motor drives.
• Experience with automotive networking (CAN, LIN, Ethernet).
• Understanding of thermal design and basic control theory.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design of energy storage systems (inverter, battery, interconnect).
• Collaborate with mechanical, firmware, test, and reliability teams for mass production.
• Design and validate high voltage and high current power electronics.
• Debug complex subsystem interactions at board and system level.
• Support manufacturing readiness and field deployment as needed.

Skills

End-to-end design

High voltage

System debugging

Firmware familiarity

Python scripting

Power electronics

Motor drives

Thermal design

Automotive networking (CAN/LIN/EtherET

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

Job description

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 Electrical 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.

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.