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# Forward Deployed Engineer

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Base Power posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in Austin, TX with no pay posted. Forward-deployed engineer responsible for launching Base’s residential battery and grid-services operations across new states. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026.

- [Base Power](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/base-power)

Posted Oct 15, 2026 by Base Power · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026

Pay not posted Austin, TX On-site Full-time

Forward-deployed engineer responsible for launching Base’s residential battery and grid-services operations across new states.

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

Not posted

Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K.

### The work

Builds what the customer runs

Balance **Mostly building**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales (not covered)
2. Proof of concept
3. Implementation
4. Operations (not covered)

- **Coding**: Writes production code

- **Builds for**: Both

- **Level**: Senior

- **Role**: Individual contributor

### What they ask for

Experience

- **2+ years** Building production software in product or full-stack engineering roles

Background

- **Software engineering**

### Do you meet what the posting states?

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The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now?

The job is in Austin, TX. Could you work there?

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## Conditions

- **Location**: Austin, TX

- **Work arrangement**: On-site

- **Employment type**: Full-time

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## The job description from Base Power

Posted by Base Power on Oct 15, 2026

### 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 works in the physical world. A homeowner finds us and decides to trust a new kind of power company. A crew installs the battery. The city approves it, the utility connects it, and we dispatch it, telling it when to charge and when to send power back based on local grid conditions and the member’s usage. Our software has to work inside every one of those steps.

Now we’re going nationwide, and every new state is a new puzzle. The utilities and grids are different. Cities have their own rules. Homeowners think about batteries very differently, too: someone in Houston who lived through a week-long outage sees a home battery differently than someone who has never lost power. Launching a market means learning all of that fast, building software that works there, and then doing it again in the next state.

We’re hiring a forward deployed engineer to go where those problems are.

### How this role works

You’ll embed with the teams and partners behind each launch and learn how their operations really run. Then you’ll build whatever it takes to make the launch work, from a partner’s spreadsheet to BaseOS to the firmware on the battery. What you learn goes back to our Core Experience and Platform teams, so every launch makes the system better.

### Where you might embed

- **Growth:** our sales and marketing teams and the partners who bring homeowners to Base, like homebuilders and channel partners. Build what each new market needs to launch, and scale what works from state to state.
- **Deployments:** our deployments team and installer partners. Get new crews, paperwork rules, and handoffs right in every state.
- **Utilities:** our utility and markets team and the utilities we connect to. Use grid data to find where the grid is strained, decide where batteries do the most good, and shape how we dispatch the fleet.

### What you’ll do

- Learn how the work really gets done, and where it breaks, by working alongside the team or partner
- Help decide which problems matter most, what to build, and what to fix with process instead of code
- Build end-to-end software: integrations, internal tools, workflows, data pipelines, and partner-facing products
- Ship a prototype fast, then harden what works so other teams can rely on it
- Work with utility partners on grid constraints and data, and build tools that turn that data into decisions about where to deploy batteries and how to command them
- Launch new states by standing up the partner integrations, workflows, and data each market needs, and make the next launch faster

### What you’ll bring

- 2+ years building production software in product or full-stack engineering roles
- Strong frontend and full-stack skills, with comfort across modern web apps, APIs, data models, and stateful user experiences
- Strong product judgment and a track record of turning ambiguous ideas into shipped, useful products
- Experience in 0-to-1 or fast-moving environments where user needs, product shape, and success metrics are still changing
- Experience using product analytics, experimentation, and data to guide decisions
- Intensity and urgency, and a high bar for your own work

*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.

[View posting at Base Power](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/base-power/f0f024b0-2c68-44fe-a6dd-3095bfbbccb6/application)

## About Base Power

Installs and operates residential batteries for homeowners, utilities, and homebuilders, pairing outage backup with retail power plans and grid services.

Series C · 200–500 people

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