Power Electronics Validation Engineer

Heron Power is a startup company building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. We aim to de-bottleneck the growth of electricity generation and consumption with scalable, innovative, and less costly hardware solutions, accelerating the electrification of everything.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience in systems integration, bring-up, testing, or related work on complex electrical systems (power electronics strongly preferred).
• Demonstrated ownership across a meaningful chunk of a product lifecycle (prototype → iteration → validation, or development → field issues → corrective actions).
• Strong fundamentals across power, controls/embedded behavior, and system-level interfaces (electrical, thermal, mechanical boundaries).
• Hands-on integration/debugging experience (instrumentation, logs/telemetry, firmware interaction, CAN or similar comms).
• Experience in product development of grid-tied inverters / PCS / medium-voltage systems.
• Familiarity with power system modeling, operation, and common protection techniques.
• Knowledge of reliability engineering principles (Weibull analysis, derating, ALT/HALT).
• Experience building automated test coverage / regression frameworks (Python or similar).

Benefits

• Competitive compensation (salary and equity) and benefits.
• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Retirement Plan