Hands-on Battery Safety & Abuse Test Engineer

Base Power Company; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Base Power Company is seeking a test engineer to join the safety and abuse team. You will design and execute safety and abuse tests on in-house designs, evaluate systems with DFMEA, and own test setups from lab to data reporting.

This role is hands-on at a satellite lab near Austin, requiring hands-on testing outdoors during sprints and collaboration with engineers, technicians, and designers. You will set up data acquisition, run thermal runaway and short-circuit tests on batteries and

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 but not limited to: 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 or current measurement, accelerometer measurement, etc
• Write world class test reports

Skills

Electrical testing

DFMEA

Thermal runaway

Battery safety

High voltage

Data acquisition

Tools

DAQ systems

Job description

Base Power Company is seeking a test engineer to join the safety and abuse team. You will design and execute safety and abuse tests on in-house designs, evaluate systems with DFMEA, and own test setups from lab to data reporting.

This role is hands-on at a satellite lab near Austin, requiring hands-on testing outdoors during sprints and collaboration with engineers, technicians, and designers. You will set up data acquisition, run thermal runaway and short-circuit tests on batteries and