Quantitative Trader

Base Power Company • Austin, TX

6d • Onsite

About The Position

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.

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

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed