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About the Role

We are seeking a Quantitative Trader to trade both Base’s retail load book and battery fleet. Your immediate focus would be to build a strategy for the short term (up to 30 days out) for ERCOT with near term scope to build out the strategy in PJM and eventually other ISOs. You’ll also help supplement Base’s existing longer term strategy by bringing a rigorous, portfolio-construction driven approach to how we manage exposure across generation and load. This will also involve contributing directly to the Trading & Risk’s own long-term, fundamental based price views.

Responsibilities

Trade short-term power products to capture incremental margin, with room to extend into longer-horizon and structured positions
Strengthen Base's existing hedge strategy with a more rigorous, portfolio-construction-based approach to exposure management across the battery fleet and retail load book
Contribute to Risk & Trading's in-house long-term price forecasts - incorporating market fundamentals (congestion, transmission constraints, load/generation balance) into views that inform trading and hedging decisions
Articulate market views, trading rationale, and P&L drivers clearly to leadership, shaping desk-level strategy
Evaluate capacity markets and other structured products where they offer real hedge or trading value, in ERCOT and (as we expand) PJM and beyond

Requirements

Experience trading power products on a bank, utility, or merchant trading desk, with direct exposure to forward curves, hedge instruments, and short-term markets
Hands-on proficiency building statistical and pricing models yourself (Python; not dependent on an analyst to implement your ideas)
Demonstrated experience in portfolio construction - architecting hedges across a book of exposures, not just single-position trades
Strong fundamentals-based market view: understands how congestion, transmission constraints, and load/generation balance flow into price formation
Deep experience in any ISO. Base is currently ERCOT-focused, with PJM expansion imminent and additional ISOs to follow
Comfort operating as an individual contributor in a small, fast-moving team - no analyst bench to lean on

Skills

Python

Location

ERCOT
PJM

Work Type

In-person
Full-time

Experience Level

Individual contributor

About the Company

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.