Embedded Software Engineer (Senior)

At Base we believe that the world needs reliable and abundant power to maximize human prosperity. Our team is on a mission to affect this future. Our team is made up of tenacious engineers and operators who are here to do the best work of their careers. Our team is filled with people that have solved hard problems and are here to do it again.

Device Software at Base manages all of our battery backup systems distributed across Texas. Our software ensures that our customers have reliable power as well as providing real-time data with high availability, and, low-latency command infrastructure for Virtual Power Plant operations. As a software engineer on the Device Software team you will be responsible for designing and distributing high-reliability software to our ever-growing fleet of power systems.

Responsibilities:

• Design and deliver reliable software to the fleet (Primarily in golang).

• Design, implement and release new systems including processor selection, software requirements, implementation, and validation.

• Participate in code reviews, testing, and deployment processes to ensure high-quality, reliable software and a world-class engineering culture.

Skills Required:

• First-principles thinking, simplest solution first.

• 5+ years of experience in embedded software development on embedded Linux or RTOS.

• Proficiency in object-oriented software design focused on designing proper interfaces.

• Experience developing bedded systems from the ground up.

• Proven ability to build deterministic and reliable software and write clean, maintainable code.

• Experience with test-driven software engineering and CI/CD methods.

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with real-time software development and test.

• Familiar with different processor families and their trade-offs.

• Experience with developing and maintaining systems on poor network connections.

• Familiarity with management of large fleets of deployed devices on remote and unreliable networks.

• Familiarity with power systems.