Engineering / Manufacturing Finance and Business Operations

The role

This person will be the single finance partner for those designing and building the Base battery. You will own hardware economics including BOM trajectories, production costs, capex programs, and NPI program cost-readiness.

What you will do

• Own the forecast and BvA for engineering R&D, manufacturing capex, production cost, and BOM.
• Build the unit-cost model for each generation of hardware.
• Partner with engineering and manufacturing leadership on the cost-down roadmap.
• Own the capex pipeline and ROI framework for production capacity.
• Feed clean, defensible inputs into the consolidated corporate model.
• Use AI tooling to automate the rebuild of cost models from ERP and BOM data.

Required qualifications

• 3-7 years in finance or operations at a hardware, manufacturing, or industrial business at meaningful scale.
• Track record of building production cost and BOM models that drove real cost-down programs.
• Strong cost-accounting and BOM fluency.
• Comfortable on the factory floor and at the whiteboard.
• First-principles instincts on hardware economics.
• Excel and SQL as native tools.
• Comfort getting into ERP (NetSuite) and BI directly.

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 Finance & Business Operations team provides visibility on performance, financing growth, and supporting capital allocation decisions.