Base Power
Software Engineer, Algorithms & Infrastructure
Austin, TX. Posted 29 days ago
The role
You will build and automate decision infrastructure for a battery fleet, including simulators, models, and trading-strategy systems. You will work on battery dispatch, control policies, and implementing ML-based methods.
What you will do
- Design, build, and maintain infrastructure, platforms, and algorithmic components for battery control and financial market participation.
- Work with utilities, fleet, and market teams to enable participation in domestic and international power markets.
- Automate processes for backtest automation and release processes.
- Build monitoring, alerting, and reporting for automated decision processes.
- Improve existing battery physical operation policies.
- De-risk, implement, and maintain ML-based methods for automated decision making.
Required qualifications
- Strong ability to systematize requirements and define success for ambiguous problems.
- A world-class ownership mindset.
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML and HPC infrastructure from a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) or specialized ones (Modal, Beam).
- Strong interest in applied math and machine learning methods.
- Experience solving MLOps or similarly challenging observability/monitoring/versioning problems.
Nice to have
- experience with decision-making under uncertainty for stateful systems
About the company
Base is America’s next-generation power company rebuilding the electricity foundation by deploying a network of distributed batteries. They are engineers, operators, and creatives solving complex, interdisciplinary challenges.