Base Power Company
Hardware Test Engineer
Austin, TX · Mid
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About the role
- This role is ideal for someone who's hands-on, detail-oriented, and comfortable working across mechanical, electrical, and software domains.
- The Hardware Reliability and Test team ensures our equipment exceeds engineering and reliability standards through rigorous mechanical, electrical, and environmental testing at the component, sub-assembly, and system levels.
- When we find failure points, we leverage data-driven insights to identify root causes and provide actionable improvements and mitigations.
Responsibilities
- Drive a wide spectrum of validation efforts-including electrical, mechanical, and reliability to ensure our hardware meets and exceeds engineering and reliability requirements
- Design and build tests by designing mechanical fixtures and PCBAs, sourcing power supplies, sensors, and other test equipment and automating test equipment, environmental chambers, and DAQ systems
- Lead root cause and failure analysis on hardware issues to produce actionable test findings
- Distill complex technical results into high-signal reports that drive critical design decisions across the engineering organization.
- We act as a tight feedback loop for the design team, accelerating product maturity and ensuring we deliver a stellar experience for our members.
Requirements
- Electrical Engineering and/or Mechanical Engineering work experience with 2+ years of hands-on experience in test engineering of electromechanical products which run embedded firmware
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.
- 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.
- Operate at Base Pace:
- Focus on what matters, act quickly, and learn by doing.
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