Quantitative Developer Intern
Base Power Company•Austin, TX
•Onsite
About The Position
We’re looking for a highly motivated, intellectually curious, mission-driven software engineer to join our Markets team. As an intern, you’ll work on high-impact problems critical to Base’s success and deliver solutions alongside full-time team members.
Requirements
- First-principles thinker with a strong problem-solving mindset.
- Expertise in optimization techniques and sequential decision-making algorithms.
- Proficiency in statistics, machine learning, and data-driven decision-making.
- Strong software engineering skills, including test-driven development and CI/CD workflows.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL; ability to write clean, maintainable, and scalable code.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of energy markets, energy systems, or wholesale power trading.
- Experience in commodities, equities, or derivatives trading.
Responsibilities
- Designing algorithms for trading a fleet of energy storage resources in ERCOT.
- Validating physics- and economics-based models in a simulation environment.
- Implementing and deploying new algorithms to our production trading stack.
- Quantifying long-term financial risk under different operating strategies.
- Identifying and assessing new products and contract structures.
- Developing software to automate valuation and execution of trades.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
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