Hardware Reliability & Test Engineering Intern

The role

You will work with the Reliability and Test team to design test fixtures and run validation experiments. You will analyze failure data and help close the feedback loop between the lab and the design team.

What you will do

• Design and build test fixtures and measurement setups for electrical, mechanical, and environmental validation of battery modules, inverters, and interconnect hardware.
• Build automated test rigs, configure and troubleshoot DAQ systems.
• Run accelerated life tests, thermal cycling, and environmental stress screening in environmental chambers.
• Analyze test data in Python using scripts to automate data ingest, anomaly detection, and pass/fail evaluation.
• Support root cause and failure analysis on hardware issues, from visual inspection and solder rework to schematic-level investigation.
• Contribute to test reports and reliability documentation.

Required qualifications

• Current junior, senior, or graduate student in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Hands-on experience building or testing electromechanical hardware.
• Comfort with Python for data analysis.
• Familiarity with bench instruments: oscilloscopes, power supplies, multimeters, DAQ systems.
• Attention to detail and a high bar for documentation.
• Curious, self-directed, and willing to dig into a problem that doesn't have an obvious answer.

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.