Product Security Engineer
Base Power · Austin, TX
About this role
**Product Security 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 transforms today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. We’re engineers, operators, and creatives solving complex, interdisciplinary challenges. **About the Role** Base’s batteries are internet-connected industrial control systems in miniature. Installed across thousands of homes, together they operate as a distributed power plant. You’ll own the end-to-end security of the fleet and how it interacts with the world. The fleet is live and scaling quickly, so real-world exposure compounds with every install. This is a generalist role: you’ll go wherever the risk is highest—across software, firmware, hardware, and cloud. You’ll dive into unfamiliar systems, bottom out assumptions, and prove what’s actually true. **What You’ll Do** - Own threat modeling and design review across the product—from gateway SoCs and boot chains through embedded firmware, fleet transport, command authority, and cloud services - Turn threat models into prioritized security objectives and drive implementation - Design and build security foundations for the fleet: device identity and factory provisioning, code/OTA signing, service authentication, and certificate lifecycle across devices that outlive the systems issuing them - Analyze vulnerability reports and internal findings: reproduce, run variant analysis, determine exploitability and design impact, and set direction for fixes - Test the product the way an attacker would (at whichever layer matters), then convert findings into requirements and standards changes - Author security engineering standards and reference patterns; build tooling to make review and enforcement repeatable - Produce technical assessments for utility, interconnection, and certification engagements where device security is in scope **What You’ll Bring** - Experience securing production systems spanning multiple trust boundaries - A track record of shipping security work end-to-end and collaborating across teams - Judgment to distinguish plausible attacks from consequential ones and prioritize accordingly - Ability to get productive quickly in unfamiliar systems, bottom out assumptions, and support conclusions with evidence - Enough software engineering depth to read, test, and change systems you review (regardless of language/tech stack) - Clear communication and writing skills - Ability to rally other teams **About the Team** Base’s Product Security team owns security for a fleet already live in thousands of homes and scaling fast—from the SoCs and boot chains inside each battery to the cloud services commanding them. The team is small and generalist by design. Engineers go wherever risk is highest, moving fluidly across firmware, hardware, software, and cloud. **Note** Base is a startup—priorities shift and evolve quickly. Your role may expand or change based on business needs. **Our Values** - First Principles Thinking - Operate at Base Pace - Give & Get Feedback - Everyone’s an Owner - Strong Opinions, Loosely Held - Committed to the Mission - Fun & Optimism Coexist with Grit **DO THE BEST WORK OF YOUR LIFE AT BASE.**
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