Base Power Company
Network Engineer, Distributed Compute
Austin, TX · Senior
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About the role
- Standardize the per-site network stack (routing, switching, firewall, out-of-band management) so new sites come online quickly.
- Automate configuration generation, zero-touch provisioning, and monitoring so network state is managed in code.
Responsibilities
- Lead fiber and carrier strategy for the fleet.
- Evaluate dark fiber vs. lit services, and build vs. lease decisions per site cluster.
- Select topologies that scale with site density, and manage carrier/ISP selection, circuit ordering, and failover across fiber, fixed wireless, and cellular.
- You'll build on existing work with Base's fiber consultants and take over this function as it scales.
- Build and operate the fleet overlay and its automation.
- Own the end-to-end network architecture for Distributed Compute networks: site connectivity, backhaul, the fleet-wide overlay, and the interconnect within each node.
- Instrument, secure, and support the network in practice.
Requirements
- Familiarity with fiber networks and topologies
- Experience procuring and managing circuits with carriers
- Comfort in the field.
Skills
- Establish secure site-to-site and site-to-cloud connectivity, BGP routing, and traffic engineering for inference workloads.
Benefits
- Track latency, throughput, packet loss, and circuit health in Base's telemetry and Grafana stack.
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.
- Distributed Compute is Base's program for deploying modular datacenters on top of our battery fleet, turning distributed energy sites into a distributed inference network.
- That scale is a networking problem as much as a power problem.
- Hundreds of small sites, each running GPU compute, spread across utility territories, and every one of them needs reliable, secure, high-throughput connectivity, with the fleet behaving like one coherent network.
- This is the first dedicated network engineering hire on the program, so the architecture decisions are still open and the constraints are real: residential and utility sites, power budgets, physical access.
- What you build will carry production inference traffic within months, not years.
- 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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