Quantitative Developer Intern

The role

You will design and implement sequential decision algorithms for trading energy storage resources. You will also help identify, evaluate, and automate new hedging strategies for financial contracts.

What you will do

• Designing algorithms for trading a fleet of energy storage resources in ERCOT
• Validating physics- and economics-based models in a simulation environment
• Implementing and deploying new algorithms to our production trading stack
• Quantifying long-term financial risk under different operating strategies
• Identifying and assessing new products and contract structures
• Developing software to automate valuation and execution of trades

Required qualifications

• First-principles thinker with a strong problem-solving mindset
• 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 workflows
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and scalable code

Nice to have

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

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.