Mechanical Design Engineer

The role

You will design enclosures, structures, and assemblies for home batteries and related hardware. You will own parts from concept through production including CAD, analysis, prototyping, testing, and release to manufacturing.

What you will do

• Own the design of mechanical components and assemblies, from concept through production.
• Build 3D models and production drawings with proper GD&T and tolerance stacks.
• Run thermal, stress, and structural analysis, by hand and in simulation.
• Select materials for performance, cost, and manufacturability.
• Design for manufacturing at volume, working with suppliers on tooling, processes, and assembly.
• Integrate with electrical engineers on batteries, wiring, and enclosures.
• Write test plans, build test setups, and use the results to close out designs.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
• 3+ years designing consumer or industrial hardware where performance or safety is critical, like cars, laptops, or power tools.
• Strong 3D and 2D CAD skills.
• Hands-on prototyping, including 3D printing and CNC machining.
• Working knowledge of how materials behave under thermal and mechanical loads.
• Experience releasing parts and supporting them through production.

Nice to have

• CATIA 3D experience.
• Enclosures or structures for batteries, power electronics, or other thermally and electrically demanding systems.
• Statistical tolerance analysis on high-volume assemblies.
• Designing for injection molding, sheet metal, casting, or extrusion.
• Safety standards for energy storage or electromechanical products.

About the company

Base is America’s next-generation power company rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries. The hardware team designs, validates, and ships batteries, inverters, and grid interconnect devices.