System Design and Architecture Engineer

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

• Define hardware architecture across subsystems, partitioning functions and resolving system boundaries
• Write and own system-level requirements through the design phase
• Transition into system integration roles to bring up integrated systems and own multi-subsystem behavior
• Resolve cross-domain trade-offs and make decisive system-level architecture decisions
• Lead root-cause investigations on system-level and inter-subsystem failures using first-principles reasoning

Requirements

• 4+ years designing or integrating multi-subsystem electromechanical, embedded, or power-electronics systems
• Strong EE and firmware fundamentals with ability to design across the HW/FW boundary
• Very strong physics and first-principles reasoning skills
• Working knowledge of classical dynamic controls (e.g., PID and feedback-loop behavior)
• Proficiency with MATLAB/Simulink for modeling and analysis
• Ability to write Python scripts and build tooling as needed
• Experience expressing designs as state charts and diagrams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience defining communications architectures (CAN, Ethernet, Modbus)
• Working knowledge of functional safety concepts
• Track record of carrying a system from architecture definition through integration and bring-up
• Experience across multiple product domains or system types