Base Power Company

Base Power Company

Mechanical Design Engineer

Austin, TX

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 23 days ago
Product ManagementAccountingCATIAStructural AnalysisGD&TMechanical DesignCommunicationCollaborationTolerance Analysis

About the role

  • We are seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer to design residential and commercial energy products.
  • This person owns mechanical components and assemblies from concept through production-designing reliable, high-performance, manufacturable hardware for battery energy storage systems and related consumer/industrial products.

Responsibilities

  • Mechanical Design & Development: Own the design, development, and optimization of mechanical components and assemblies for residential battery systems and related hardware.
  • CAD & Prototyping: Create detailed 3D models and prototypes using CATIA 3DX. Produce manufacturing drawings with proper GD&T and tolerance stacks.
  • Engineering Analysis: Perform thermal, stress, and structural analysis-hand calcs and simulation-to validate performance, safety, and reliability.
  • Cross-Domain Integration: Work with electrical engineers to integrate mechanical design with batteries, wiring, and enclosures for reliable, safe performance.
  • Design for Manufacturability: Apply DFM to make designs cost-effective and easy to build at volume-accounting for tooling, processes, and assembly.
  • Testing & Validation: Create test plans, set up tests, and analyze results to confirm products meet standards and requirements.
  • 3+ years in mechanical design for consumer or industrial hardware where performance is critical to customer satisfaction or safety-e.g., cars, laptops, power tools.
  • Understanding of DFM and the ability to collaborate with manufacturing to ensure designs can be produced efficiently.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
  • Proficiency in CAD (3D and 2D) and statistical tolerance analysis.
  • Hands-on experience with prototyping, testing, and manufacturing, including 3D printing and CNC machining.
  • Working knowledge of materials science-how materials behave under thermal and mechanical loads, and how to select them for the application.
  • Experience with product lifecycle management from concept through production-part release, documentation, sustaining, and obsolescence.

Nice to have

  • Experience designing enclosures or structural assemblies for battery, power-electronics, or other thermally and electrically demanding systems.
  • Experience with statistical tolerance analysis on high-volume assemblies.
  • Familiarity with safety standards relevant to energy storage or electromechanical products.
  • 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.

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 is a startup, which means priorities shift and evolve quickly.
  • Rebuilding the grid is a big challenge.
  • We work in-person.
  • It's not a 9-to-5.
  • We are all-in.
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