About the Role
Base is seeking a Quality Engineer to support in-house manufacturing, ensuring the quality, safety, and reliability of manufactured components and assemblies. This role involves close collaboration with hardware design and manufacturing engineering teams to establish quality standards, product/process requirements, and manufacturing quality control plans in a fast-paced startup environment.
Responsibilities
- Define and implement manufacturing quality control plans across the factory.
- Collaborate with engineering stakeholders to build design and process FMEAs, and drive risk reduction activities.
- Support the development of Base’s Quality Management Systems (QMS) in alignment with ISO 9001 requirements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate QMS into production, engineering, and supply chain processes.
- Develop and maintain documentation, including quality manuals, procedures, and work instructions.
- Analyze quality data to identify trends, root causes, and opportunities for improvement.
- Lead corrective and preventive action processes to address non-conformances.
- Set up non-conformance work streams and rework processes to support manufacturing.
- Monitor and report on key performance indicators related to quality system effectiveness.
- Conduct regular audits to ensure compliance with ISO 9001 standards and internal quality policies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality Management, or a related field.
- 3+ years of manufacturing quality experience.
- Strong analytical skills with proficiency in root cause analysis and problem-solving methodologies (e.g., 8D, FMEA).
- Experience with quality tools such as statistical process control (SPC), measurement systems analysis (MSA), and general statistical data analysis.
- Excellent documentation and organizational skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with teams and train staff.
Skills
- Root Cause Analysis
- Problem-Solving Methodologies
- 8D
- FMEA
- Statistical Process Control (SPC)
- Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA)
- Statistical Data Analysis
- Documentation
- Organization
- Communication
- Interpersonal Skills
Location
- Onsite
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
About the Company
- Base is America’s next-generation power company, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
