Fleet Management Engineer - Edge
Our mission at Base is to fix the power grid and enable affordable and reliable electricity for all. To do that, we are building America’s Next-Generation Power Company; the first engineering-led, technology-focused, R&D-driven electricity company. We are a team of tenacious engineers, operators, and creatives who have solved hard problems and are here to do it again.
We are seeking a skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our Fleet Management Team. This role focuses on developing software on our edge devices for our large and rapidly growing fleet of IoT fleet; ensuring high reliability, continuous uptime, and effective remote configuration. The ideal candidate will have proven experience designing edge IoT/IIoT gateway devices on embedded linux or similar.
Responsibilities:
- Uptime and Reliability: maintain and improve uptime for a large IoT device fleet by implementing robust monitoring, alerting, and failover systems.
- Connectivity Management: ensure connectivity reliability, particularly in remote environments, optimizing communication protocols and troubleshooting connectivity issues.
- Software OTA Updates: design, test, and manage over-the-air (OTA) software updates, ensuring seamless rollouts, minimizing disruptions, and maintaining version control across the fleet.
- Device Configuration: implement and streamline configuration management processes to support rapid scaling, ensuring each device is appropriately configured and secure.
- Fleet Growth Support: support the scaling of our fleet by designing solutions for rapid deployment and configuration of new systems, which are added weekly.
- Data-Driven Insights: use data analytics to detect trends, diagnose issues, and drive continuous improvement in fleet performance and reliability.
Required Skills / Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
- 3+ years of experience developing in an embedded Linux or Yocto environments with a focus on connectivity and security.
- Proficiency in Python, c/c++, or Golang.
- Experience with IoT protocols (MQTT, gRPC, AWS IoT Core, ECS, S3, etc.).
- Experience with developing and maintaining systems on poor network connections.
- Familiarity with management of large fleets of deployed devices on remote and unreliable networks.
- Experience with monitoring tools, configuration management systems, and OTA frameworks.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex, distributed systems.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
If you’re passionate about tackling one of the most critical challenges of our time, now is the time to join us. Together, we can usher in a new era of American energy abundance by developing the hardware, software, and deployment operations that make it possible.
Our Values:
We’re building a winning culture, and we’re looking for people who are up for the challenge. These are the values we expect you to embrace from day one:
- In-Person Work: We work full-time in the office. There is no hybrid or remote work.
- Challenge Assumptions: We’re not here to do things the way they’ve always been done. We look for people who question the status quo and improve broken systems. We are guided by principles, not rules.
- Operate with Urgency: Speed matters. We focus on what’s essential, make fast progress, and iterate quickly. Execution drives learning, and learning drives impact. Always have a bias for action.
- Give & Seek Feedback: We value intellectual honesty. We expect you to challenge ideas (even your own), give direct feedback, and receive it with humility.
- Deliver: We are high achievers with a drive to win. We take end-to-end accountability for seeing our work through and delivering on our responsibilities.
- Think Like an Owner: We are all owners of the business. We use our time and resources wisely and take personal responsibility for our impact on the bottom line.
- Be Opinionated: Great people make decisions with imperfect information. Eliminate murky ownership and drive towards decisions.
- Bring the Intensity: This is not a 9-to-5 job. We are building something hard, and that requires real commitment.