Electrical Engineer - Energy Storage Systems

Base Power; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Base is America’s next-generation power company seeking an Electrical Engineer to own the design of energy storage systems—from inverter to interconnect—through production and field deployment. You will work on high voltage, embedded hardware, and robust validation in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

We value hands-on PCB design,Embedded firmware, and strong collaboration with mechanical, firmware, and reliability teams to bring products to high-volume manufacturing.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
• Experience with analog and digital circuit design, including high voltage or power supply design.
• PCB design (Altium) with initial bring-up: debugging, soldering, wiring, mechanical assembly.
• Familiarity with embedded firmware, microcontrollers and their peripherals, Python scripting.
• 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 sensor bandwidths and filtering.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership of energy storage system designs (inverter, battery, Microgrid interconnect); specs, architecture, layout, bring-up, testing.
• Collaborate with mechanical, firmware, test, reliability teams to move products to high-volume manufacturing.
• Design and execute HV and high-current validation of inverter, battery and BMS designs.
• Debug complex component interactions at the system level.

Skills

Analog & Digital circuit design

PCB design (Altium)

Embedded firmware

Python scripting

Lab instrumentation

Power semiconductors

Motor & thermal design

Automotive networking CAN/LIN/Ethernet

Control theory basics

Education

Electrical Engineering degree or related

Job description

Base is America’s next-generation power company seeking an Electrical Engineer to own the design of energy storage systems—from inverter to interconnect—through production and field deployment. You will work on high voltage, embedded hardware, and robust validation in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

We value hands-on PCB design,Embedded firmware, and strong collaboration with mechanical, firmware, and reliability teams to bring products to high-volume manufacturing.