Electronics Design Engineer - HV Inverters & Battery Systems

Base Power Company; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Base is America’s next-generation power company building a distributed energy storage platform with batteries, inverters, and interconnect devices. As an Electronics Design Engineer you’ll own end-to-end design of energy storage systems from schematic through production and field deployment.

You’ll debug high‑voltage systems, collaborate with mechanical and firmware teams, and validate inverter, battery, and BMS designs to deliver reliable, scalable solutions for a fast-paced startup environment

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Digital and analog circuit design, including high voltage circuits or power supply design.
• PCB 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.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership of energy storage system designs (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.

Skills

Electrical Engineering

Digital circuit design

Analog circuit design

Power supply design

PCB layout (Altium)

Embedded firmware

Debugging/system bring‑up

High voltage design

Automotive networking (CAN, LIN, Ether

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related

Tools

Altium

Oscilloscopes

Function generators

Power supplies

Job description

Base is America’s next-generation power company building a distributed energy storage platform with batteries, inverters, and interconnect devices. As an Electronics Design Engineer you’ll own end-to-end design of energy storage systems from schematic through production and field deployment.

You’ll debug high‑voltage systems, collaborate with mechanical and firmware teams, and validate inverter, battery, and BMS designs to deliver reliable, scalable solutions for a fast-paced startup environment