Product Security Engineer
Own end-to-end product security for Base's fleet of internet-connected home batteries, from silicon boot chains and embedded firmware through fleet transport and cloud services. Day to day: threat modeling, building security foundations like device identity and OTA signing, vulnerability analysis, and attacker-style testing.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Austin, TX
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Security
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Experience securing production systems that span multiple trust boundaries
- Track record of shipping security work end-to-end and collaborating across teams to make it stick
- Judgment to distinguish plausible attacks from consequential ones and prioritize accordingly
- Ability to get productive quickly in unfamiliar systems, bottom out assumptions, and support conclusions with evidence
- Software engineering depth to read, test, and change the systems you review, regardless of language or tech stack
- Clear communication and writing skills; ability to rally other teams
Full description
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 Role
Base's batteries are internet-connected industrial control systems in miniature. Installed across thousands of homes, together they operate as a distributed power plant. The attack surface runs from silicon to cloud.
You'll own the end-to-end security of the fleet and how it interacts with the world. The fleet is live today and scaling quickly, so the exposure is real and compounds with every install. This is a generalist role: you'll go wherever the risk is highest, across software, firmware, hardware, and cloud. You'll dive into unfamiliar systems, bottom out assumptions, and prove what's actually true.
What You'll Do
- Own threat modeling and design review across the product, from gateway SoCs and boot chains through embedded firmware, fleet transport, command authority, and cloud services
- Turn threat models into prioritized security objectives and drive their implementation
- Design and build the security foundations under the fleet: device identity and factory provisioning, code and OTA signing, service authentication, and certificate lifecycle across devices that outlive the systems issuing them
- Analyze vulnerability reports and internal findings: reproduce them, run variant analysis, determine exploitability and design impact, and set the direction of the fix
- Test our product the way an attacker would, at whichever layer matters, then turn findings into requirements and standards changes
- Author security engineering standards and reference patterns, build the tooling that makes review and enforcement repeatable
- Produce the technical assessments Base's position rests on in utility, interconnection, and certification engagements where device security is in scope
What You'll Bring
- Experience securing production systems that span multiple trust boundaries
- A track record of shipping security work end-to-end and collaborating across teams to make it stick
- The judgment to distinguish plausible attacks from consequential ones and prioritize accordingly
- The ability to get productive quickly in unfamiliar systems, bottom out assumptions, and support conclusions with evidence
- Enough software engineering depth to read, test, and change the systems you review, regardless of language or tech-stack