Senior Quant, Energy Markets & Hedging

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

Job summary

Base, America’s next-generation power company, is building a distributed battery network to reshape the grid. As a Quant Analyst on the Risk & Trading team, you’ll own price models for ERCOT and PJM and turn analysis into hedging actions.

This mid-to-senior role blends quantitative work, software engineering, and energy-market expertise. You’ll extend ERCOT work to PJM, sharpen congestion modeling, and guide hedging decisions.

Qualifications

• Understanding wholesale energy markets (ERCOT, PJM) and real-time arbitrage.
• Proficient in Python and data analysis to build models and evaluation.
• Familiar with ML methods, validation, and production deployment.

Responsibilities

• Improve price distributions by accounting for grid congestion effects.
• Develop PJM price model and hedging workflows.
• Collaborate with traders and engineers to deploy models.

Skills

Energy markets knowledge

Programming & SQL

Statistics & ML fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Tools

Python

SQL

Pandas

Job description

Base, America’s next-generation power company, is building a distributed battery network to reshape the grid. As a Quant Analyst on the Risk & Trading team, you’ll own price models for ERCOT and PJM and turn analysis into hedging actions.

This mid-to-senior role blends quantitative work, software engineering, and energy-market expertise. You’ll extend ERCOT work to PJM, sharpen congestion modeling, and guide hedging decisions.