Base Power
Hardware Reliability & Test Engineering Intern
Austin, TX · On-site · Internship · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Education
- Current junior, senior, or graduate student in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
About the job
Designs and runs reliability tests on battery and power hardware, analyzes failures, and feeds test findings back to the design team.
What you'll do
- Design test fixtures and measurement setups; build automated test rigs and troubleshoot DAQ systems.
- Run accelerated-life, thermal-cycling, and environmental stress tests; analyze data in Python.
- Support root-cause and failure analysis, and contribute to test reports and reliability documentation.
What they ask for
- Current junior, senior, or graduate student in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Hands-on experience building or testing electromechanical hardware; personal projects count.
- Comfort with Python for data analysis.
- Familiarity with bench instruments, including oscilloscopes, power supplies, multimeters, and DAQ systems.
Tools
Python, DAQ systems
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