Server Architect
Base Power Company2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Build the fleet control plane for inventory, identity, activation, telemetry, and operator tooling across remote GPU nodes.
- Own out-of-band server provisioning and recovery using Redfish/iDRAC automation, network boot, immutable OS images, and rescue paths.
- Develop a secure, durable node agent that establishes cloud trust, reports state, receives work, and survives reboots and unreliable networks.
- Design overlay networking and secure connectivity across consumer internet links.
- Integrate compute dispatch with energy planning systems so workloads respond to power availability and grid needs.
- Collaborate with hardware and deployment teams on enclosures, thermals, and outdoor server operation.
Requirements
- Bring 8+ years of experience building systems software close to hardware, including platform management, firmware, provisioning, fleet orchestration, or backend services for physical machines.
- Have deep experience with BMC/iDRAC, Redfish or IPMI, PXE/virtual-media boot, hardware inventory, and remote recovery.
- Demonstrate strong ability in C, C++, Rust, or Go and comfort working across boot logs and distributed services.
- Have operated remote fleets such as servers, network gear, vehicles, telecommunications equipment, or energy hardware.
- Use sound judgment about building versus adopting industry standards and existing supply chains.
- Demonstrate strong ownership and ability to establish technical patterns on a small founding team.
- Datacenter or cloud platform experience, hypervisors, bare-metal cloud provisioning, GPU serving, vLLM, inference routing, KV-cache-aware scheduling, compiler/toolchain work, OS-image builds, or power-systems exposure are preferred.
Benefits
- Work in person as part of an all-in startup team; the role is not a 9-to-5 position.
- Join a founding-team effort building a distributed datacenter across thousands of homes and operating its hardware and compute end to end.
- Responsibilities may expand or change as business priorities evolve.
About Base Power Company
Base Power Company builds and operates distributed home battery systems that provide outage protection and lower electric costs for households, while strengthening local grid reliability. The company sells and finances these systems directly and through partnerships with homebuilders in a B2B2C model. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Base is privately held and focuses on clean energy, energy storage, and grid services in the U.S. market.