Base Power
Engineering / Manufacturing Finance and Business Operations
Austin, TX · On-site · Full-time · Posted May 9, 2026
- Experience
- 3–7 years in finance or operations at a hardware, manufacturing, or industrial business at meaningful scale.
About the job
Own hardware economics and financial planning across engineering, manufacturing, production costs, BOM, factory capex, and new product introduction programs.
What you'll do
- Forecast and report actual-versus-budget performance for engineering R&D, manufacturing capex, production cost, and BOM.
- Build and validate unit-cost models across hardware generations, and partner with engineering and manufacturing on cost-reduction plans.
- Manage the production-capacity capex pipeline and ROI framework, and provide inputs to the corporate model.
What they ask for
- Track record building production-cost and BOM models that drove cost-reduction programs.
- Strong cost-accounting and BOM fluency.
- Proficiency with Excel and SQL, and ability to work directly with ERP and BI tools.
- Comfort partnering with engineers and operations leaders and translating technical discussions into financial outcomes.
Tools
Excel, SQL, NetSuite, ERP, BI
AI focus
Use AI tooling to speed up forecasting and analysis, including automating cost-model rebuilds from ERP and BOM data.
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