Base Power
Market Analyst
Austin, TX · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- A few years of experience in power markets, retail energy, or a related analytical field.
About the job
Own market pricing, P&L reporting, and risk analysis for Base’s battery fleet and retail operations, initially bringing its business into PJM.
What you'll do
- Build a bottoms-up PJM retail pricing model based on Base’s ERCOT model and incorporate PJM into risk systems and P&L reporting.
- Identify market opportunities and work with Finance, Growth, and Legal & Policy to develop them.
- Recommend hedging changes in ERCOT and PJM and track exposure against risk limits.
What they ask for
- Knowledge of wholesale market basics in ERCOT and PJM, including power purchasing, hedging, and settlement, and understanding of retail pricing and operations.
- Commercial understanding of retail offer costs, margins, and risks.
- Basic statistics knowledge and ability to reason about distributions and tail-heavy power prices.
- Ability to build reports and models in Python or another language, use SQL to retrieve data, and work independently.
Nice to have
- Experience at a retail energy provider, utility supply desk, or trading middle office.
Tools
Python, SQL, ERCOT, PJM
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