Electrical Lead, Energy Storage & Power Electronics

Base Power Company; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Base is building America’s next-generation power company, leading a push to transform the grid with distributed batteries and advanced energy storage tech. This EE Lead role owns the electrical architecture for Base's energy storage systems—from concept to high-volume manufacturing and field deployment.

You will lead a team of engineers, define topology and board bring-up strategies, and collaborate across firmware, mechanical, test, reliability, and manufacturing to scale products from

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in electrical system design, with significant time spent on systems like energy storage, inverters, EV charging, motor drives, or similar high-power applications.
• Demonstrated experience taking complex electrical products from initial architecture through production ramp and field deployment—ideally at scale.
• Strong command of PCB design (Altium preferred) and hands-on bring-up skills: you can solder, probe, wire, and debug with the best of them.
• You can write and run a transient thermal simulation in MATLAB or Python
• Familiarity with embedded systems, microcontrollers and their peripherals, and scripting (Python or similar) for test automation and data analysis.
• Working knowledge of control theory as applied to power conversion—loop compensation, sensor bandwidth, filtering, and stability.
• Experience with automotive or industrial communication protocols (CAN, LIN, Ethernet).
• Proficiency with lab equipment including oscilloscopes, power analyzers, function generators, and programmable power supplies.
• A track record of leading or mentoring engineers, with a desire to build and grow a high-performing team.

Responsibilities

• Set the electrical architecture and technical direction for Base's full product line, including inverters, battery management systems, and microgrid interconnect devices.
• Own specifications, topology selection, schematic capture, PCB layout strategy, board bring-up, validation, and reliability testing.
• Build, mentor, and lead a team of electrical engineers. Set high standards for design rigor, validation methodology, and documentation.
• Drive LV embedded systems and power converter design and validation across the product portfolio, including inverter power stages, battery pack architectures, and BMS.
• Collaborate firmware, mechanical, test, reliability, and manufacturing teams to move products from prototype to high-volume production.
• Own production end of line testers.
• Debug and resolve complex system-level electrical issues across power, control, and communication domains.
• Champion continuous product improvement—drive design iterations informed by field data, manufacturing feedback, and evolving performance targets.

Skills

Power electronics

System architecture

PCB design

Altium

Education

BSEE or higher

Tools

Altium

MATLAB

Python

CAN

Ethernet

Job description

Base is building America’s next-generation power company, leading a push to transform the grid with distributed batteries and advanced energy storage tech. This EE Lead role owns the electrical architecture for Base's energy storage systems—from concept to high-volume manufacturing and field deployment.

You will lead a team of engineers, define topology and board bring-up strategies, and collaborate across firmware, mechanical, test, reliability, and manufacturing to scale products from