Quality Engineer at Base Power Company (Austin, TX)
Base Power Company· Austin, TX·
Role details
Base Power Company at a glance
Base Power installs home batteries and sells below-market energy in Texas, earning its margin from the grid instead of your bill.
Base Power is a next-generation power company that installs whole-home backup batteries and sells fixed-rate, below-market electricity to homeowners, primarily in Texas. It coordinates its fleet of distributed batteries as a single grid asset, earning revenue from wholesale energy markets so it can keep customer rates low.
$1.3B raised · latest: Series C · $1B · October 2025 · backed by Addition, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Summary
Base is seeking a Quality Engineer to support in-house manufacturing processes, ensuring quality, safety, and reliability. The role involves defining quality control plans, implementing ISO 9001 standards, and collaborating with engineering teams to drive process improvements and risk reduction.
Job description
ABOUT BASE
Base is America’s next-generation power company. We’re rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Base is looking to hire a Quality Engineer to support our in-house manufacturing processes, ensuring quality, safety, and reliability of our manufactured components and assemblies. You will work collaboratively with hardware design and manufacturing engineering teams to define and implement quality standards, product and process requirements, and manufacturing quality control plans. Base is a demanding and fast-paced environment where you will work with a highly motivated team on extremely challenging projects.
What You'll Do
- Define and implement manufacturing quality control plans across our factory
- Collaborate with engineering stakeholders to build design and process FMEAs, and drive risk reduction activities to improve manufacturing processes
- Support the development of Base’s Quality Management Systems (QMS) in alignment with ISO 9001 requirements
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate QMS into production, engineering, and supply chain processes
- Develop and maintain documentation, including quality manuals, procedures, and work instructions
- Analyze quality data to identify trends, root causes, and opportunities for improvement
- Lead corrective and preventive action processes to address non-conformances
- Set up non-conformance work streams and rework processes to support manufacturing
- Monitor and report on key performance indicators related to quality system effectiveness
- Conduct regular audits to ensure compliance with ISO 9001 standards and internal quality policies
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality Management, or a related field
- 3+ years of manufacturing quality experience
- Strong analytical skills with proficiency in root cause analysis and problem-solving methodologies (e.g., 8D, FMEA)
- Experience with quality tools such as statistical process control (SPC), measurement systems analysis (MSA), and general statistical data analysis
- Excellent documentation and organizational skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with teams and train staff
- Certification as an ISO 9001 Lead Auditor or Internal Auditor is a plus
About the Team
The Manufacturing Quality team is responsible for building the systems, processes, and standards that ensure every product leaving our factory meets the highest levels of safety, reliability, and performance. We partner closely with Hardware Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, and Production teams to identify risks early, solve complex quality challenges, and continuously improve our manufacturing operations. As we scale production, this team plays a critical role in establishing a culture of quality, driving operational excellence, and ensuring our products are built right the first time.
Please note: Base is a startup, which means priorities shift and evolve quickly. Your role may expand or change based on the needs of the business at any given time, so the responsibilities listed may not be exhaustive.
OUR VALUES
- First Principles Thinking: Question assumptions. Principles > rules.
- Operate at Base Pace: Focus on what matters, act quickly, and learn by doing.
- Give & Get Feedback: Be direct, be humble, and maintain a growth mindset.
- Everyone’s an Owner: Follow through on commitments and own results.
- Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: Drive clarity and make calls with imperfect information.
- Committed to the Mission: Rebuilding the grid is a big challenge. We work hard because we care deeply about the impact we’re creating. We work in-person. It’s not a 9-to-5. We are all-in.
- Fun & Optimism Coexist with Grit: Collaboration and celebration coincide with the intensity of building real things.
DO THE BEST WORK OF YOUR LIFE AT BASE.
Why work at Base Power Company
- Culture: Described as "intense, fast-paced, and deeply mission-driven." The company demands high output, ownership, and a bias toward action. It's explicitly stated as "not for everyone, and that's by design." This is a high-ownership, low-ambiguity environment.
- Work Model: On-site at Base HQ in Austin, Texas. Proximity to the product and team is central to how they move fast. "Do I need to be based in Texas? Yes."
- Hiring Speed: Fast process — aim for 1st conversation to offer in ~2 weeks.
- Interview Process: 3-4 hour on-site including technical assessments and behavioral/team conversations. Focus on "how [you] approach problems, communicate tradeoffs, and collaborate."
- Non-traditional backgrounds: Explicitly welcome: "We care about what you've built and how you think, not the logos on your resume. Some of our best people came from non-traditional paths."
- Engineering Culture: Heavy focus on hardware + software + field operations. Talent sources heavily from Tesla, Anduril, SpaceX — firms known for hardcore engineering and manufacturing excellence. Roles span hardware engineering, firmware, software, manufacturing, field installation/service, operations, growth, and design.
- Team Composition: ~29% of employees are in technical roles; ~15% in operations; significant representation of trades workers (11).
- Notable Perks: Opportunity to work on physical infrastructure deployed at scale; chance to contribute meaningfully to grid modernization and American energy resilience.