Base Power Company
Product Security Engineer
Austin, TX
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About the role
- Base's batteries are internet-connected industrial control systems in miniature.
- Installed across thousands of homes, together they operate as a distributed power plant.
Responsibilities
- Own threat modeling and design review across the product, from gateway SoCs and boot chains through embedded firmware, fleet transport, command authority, and cloud services
- Turn threat models into prioritized security objectives and drive their implementation
- Design and build the security foundations under the fleet: device identity and factory provisioning, code and OTA signing, service authentication, and certificate lifecycle across devices that outlive the systems issuing them
- Analyze vulnerability reports and internal findings: reproduce them, run variant analysis, determine exploitability and design impact, and set the direction of the fix
- Author security engineering standards and reference patterns, build the tooling that makes review and enforcement repeatable
- The ability to get productive quickly in unfamiliar systems, bottom out assumptions, and support conclusions with evidence
- You'll own the end-to-end security of the fleet and how it interacts with the world.
Skills
- The attack surface runs from silicon to cloud.
Company info
- Base is America's next-generation power company.
- We're rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization-electricity-by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today's fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system.
- We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.
- Base's Product Security team owns the security of a fleet that's already live in thousands of homes and scaling fast, from the SoCs and boot chains inside each battery to the cloud services commanding them.
- The team is small and generalist by design.
- Rather than splitting into narrow specialties, its engineers go wherever the risk is highest, moving fluidly across firmware, hardware, software, and cloud.
- That range matters because Cortex is shipping today with almost no security review and years of accumulated debt across gen1 and gen3.
- The team's job is equal parts establishing what's actually true about the fleet's current state and building the lasting foundations, like device identity, signing, and certificate lifecycle, that let it keep scaling safely.
- Please note:
- Base is a startup, which means priorities shift and evolve quickly.
- Your role may expand or change based on the needs of the business at any given time, so the responsibilities listed may not be exhaustive.
- First Principles Thinking:
- Question assumptions.
- Principles > rules.
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