Heron Power is a startup building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. We aim to debottleneck the growth of electricity generation and consumption with scalable, innovative, and cost-effective hardware solutions, accelerating the electrification of everything.
Our first goal is to build better converters (inverters & rectifiers) to connect large-scale renewables, storage, and loads to the grid. Heron's leadership team is made up of seasoned veterans who have designed and shipped gigawatts of power conversion products.
We believe no one person knows everything. We learn together, build together, and solve hard problems from first principles. You'll work in a fast-moving, deeply technical environment where ownership and impact are real.
Job OverviewAs a Staff/Senior Staff Firmware Integration Engineer, you will own the process that takes Heron's software from development to release — ensuring every feature, fix, and architectural change lands correctly, safely, and on time to support company goals.
Why This Role Is DifferentThis role owns overall health of the software in Heron’s products, ensuring the work comes together coherently, releases are scoped with intention, and validation is sufficiently rigorous. If you thrive bringing order to complexity and take pride in shipping quality code, this is the role for you.
How You Will ContributeWorking with key stakeholders, own the definition and scope of software releases, change control over what is in, out, or deferred, and why.
Translate program milestones and field requirements into concrete software release targets. Triage feature requests and bug fixes against business needs.
Identify integration risks for each change and most efficient means of validation.
Maintain traceability between requirements, implementation, and test coverage.
Develop integration guidelines, guide the creation of test assets, and accelerate the iterative development / test loop for all team members.
Manage ticket burndowns for each release and go/no-go decisionmaking, ensuring overall program goals are met with minimum compromises
Captain and define the OTA strategy and tooling, including field soak strategies, coordination with customers, and factory deployment.
Must-Have Requirements
7+ years in embedded firmware development, with at least one role focused on software integration, validation, or release engineering
Hands-on embedded C/C++ — enough to read and review software contributions critically
Experience building HiL (hardware-in-the-loop) and SiL (software-in-the-loop) for power inverters
Experience with Simulink and/or equivalent controls simulation tools
Experience owning or managing firmware release cycles on shipped hardware products
Strong understanding of RTOS-based systems, hardware abstraction, and embedded system architecture
Demonstrated ability to hold a high-quality bar in a high-paced environment
Clear, direct communicator who can translate between engineering depth and program-level decisions
Hardware debugging skills (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, JTAG) — comfortable on the bench when validation requires it
Familiarity with safety-critical firmware standards (IEC 61508, UL1998)
Background in software CI/CD pipeline development or test automation
Exposure with OTA update mechanisms and fleet management
Manufacturing test and production qualification experience
If you are passionate about technology and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, we would love to hear from you. Join us in accelerating the electrification of everything at Heron Power.
Heron Power provides competitive compensation (salary and equity) and benefits. The salary for this role ranges from $170,000 to $240,000 per year.
Skills Required
- 7+ years in embedded firmware development, with at least one role focused on software integration, validation, or release engineering
- Hands-on embedded C/C++ (ability to read and review code critically)
- Experience with SIL (software-in-the-loop) and HIL (hardware-in-the-loop) test infrastructure
- Experience owning or managing firmware release cycles on shipped hardware products
- Strong understanding of RTOS-based systems, hardware abstraction, and embedded system architecture
- Demonstrated ability to hold a high-quality bar in a high-paced environment
- Clear, direct communicator who can translate between engineering depth and program-level decisions
- Power electronics or energy conversion domain experience
- Hardware debugging skills (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, JTAG) and bench validation experience
- Familiarity with safety-critical firmware standards (IEC 61508, UL1998)
- Background in software CI/CD pipeline development or test automation
- Exposure with OTA update mechanisms and fleet management
- Manufacturing test and production qualification experience
What We Do
Energy demand across industries is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, and the need for more deployable, efficient, resilient, and scalable infrastructure has never been more critical. The sustainable energy transition alone demands a 3-5x increase in global electricity generation and consumption. Heron Power is building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. We aim to debottleneck the growth of electricity generation and consumption with scalable, innovative, and less costly hardware solutions, accelerating the electrification of everything.
