Power Trader
- Location
- Austin, TX · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Listed
- 23 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- power trading
- portfolio hedging
- forward curve analysis
Also useful
- ERCOT market knowledge
- Python
About the Role
We are seeking a Power Trader to trade around 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.
What You’ll Do
- 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 Trading & Risk’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
What You'll Bring
- At least 3-5 years of experience trading power products on a bank, utility, or merchant trading desk, with direct exposure to forward curves, hedge instruments, and short-term markets
- 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
- (Nice to have) Hands-on proficiency building models yourself (Python; not dependent on an analyst to implement your ideas)
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 Team
The Trading & Risk team at Base is tasked with ensuring the grid-support performance and profitability of Base’s distributed battery fleet. This encompasses device communications with balancing authorities, telemetry analysis, algorithms for fleet aggregation and economic dispatch, through to financial portfolio management in wholesale energy markets.
Our team is made up of physicists, economists, computer scientists, and engineers; the best candidates will bring the day-over-day intensity of an operator with the foresight to drive the long term development of simpler, more performant automated control. Success looks like building the airplane as it falls out of the sky.
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.
From Base Power Company's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 17, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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