Quantitative Developer Intern

About the Company

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.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement sequential decision algorithms for trading energy storage resources in ERCOT
• Validate physics- and economics-based models in simulation environments
• Implement and deploy new algorithms to the production trading stack
• Quantify long-term financial risk under different operating strategies
• Identify and assess new products and contract structures
• Develop software to automate valuation and execution of trades

Requirements

• Strong problem-solving mindset and first-principles thinker
• Expertise in optimization techniques and sequential decision-making algorithms
• Proficiency in statistics, machine learning, and data-driven decision-making
• Strong software engineering skills including test-driven development and CI/CD
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and scalable code

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of energy markets, energy systems, or wholesale power trading
• Experience in commodities, equities, or derivatives trading