# Battery Safety & Abuse Test Engineer

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 hiring a Battery Safety & Abuse Test Engineer to push our batteries and inverters past their limits on purpose, so our members never see it. You'll review designs, find gaps in test coverage, then plan, build, and run the tests, including the ones required for certification. Most of your time will be hands-on at Base's outdoor test site outside Austin (transportation provided), with time in the office too. What You'll 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 ex

- **Id**: 2961350
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/base-power-safety-and-abuse-test-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-20T22:21:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T18:48:47Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 20
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3409
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Energy Storage, Smart Grid

## Company

- **Id**: 5219
- **Name**: Base Power
- **Domain**: basepower.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/base-power-company>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 188
- **Ghost share**: 0.202
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.005
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 73
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **FMEA** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 20

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-06T16:03:34Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 12; Filings 12m: 12

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 20
- **Expected fill days**: 73
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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