Battery Safety & Abuse Test Engineer

The role

You will design, build, and run safety and abuse tests on batteries and inverters. You will evaluate designs for safety and manage data acquisition at an outdoor test site and in the office.

What you will do

• Evaluate designs for safety with DFMEA and similar tools.
• Design and run safety and abuse tests, including thermal runaway, battery and inverter short circuit, and full-voltage switch interruption.
• Own the safety of every test setup.
• Set up data acquisition: thermocouples, voltage and current, and accelerometers.
• Run certification tests in-house or at external labs.
• Improve test throughput, quality, and the test site itself.
• Write world-class test reports and share results with the people who need them.

Required qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• 1+ years designing and running tests on electrical equipment.
• Experience working around lithium-ion batteries, high voltage, and DAQ systems.
• Comfort with hands-on, mostly outdoor work.

Nice to have

• Battery thermal runaway testing.
• UL 9540, UL 9540A, or UL 1973.
• Short circuit or other high-energy testing.
• Fixture and test setup design in CAD.

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. They are engineers, operators, and creatives solving complex, interdisciplinary challenges.