Drimva

Base Power

Quantitative Analyst

Austin, TX · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026

About the job

Build and improve price models and hedging strategies for Base’s wholesale energy trading and risk platform, extending its work from ERCOT to PJM.

What you'll do

  • Improve price distributions by modeling grid congestion effects.
  • Build a PJM price model to support risk tracking and hedging decisions.
  • Develop a PJM hedging strategy using the models built.

What they ask for

  • Knowledge of wholesale energy markets, including operations, real-time arbitrage, ancillary services, capacity, unit commitment, economic dispatch, and production cost modeling.
  • Ability to build models independently using Python or another language and retrieve data with SQL.
  • Understanding of statistical and machine-learning concepts, including model evaluation, bias-variance tradeoff, and loss functions; deep familiarity with at least one statistical subfield.
  • Experience deploying and maintaining versioned production models and scaling training beyond a single machine; proficiency with Python, pandas, and visualization libraries.

Tools

Python, SQL, pandas

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