Principal Embedded Software Engineer
WHAT TO EXPECT
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 OVERVIEW
As a Principal Embedded Software Engineer / Firmware Architect, you will own the technical vision and architecture for Heron’s embedded firmware platform.
You will define how our converters are operated and monitored at the device level — from microcontroller selection and RTOS architecture to resource management, safety infrastructure, and production firmware processes. This role blends deep hands-on engineering with system architecture and technical leadership.
WHY THIS ROLE IS DIFFERENT
This role owns the device brain. You’ll architect the firmware platform that every Heron product is built on — shaping performance, reliability, maintainability and scaleability at the foundation — while partnering closely with controls and cloud engineers to deliver a complete solution.
If you enjoy building robust embedded systems from the metal up and setting technical direction for an entire product line, you’ll thrive here.
HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE
Architecture & Technical Leadership
- Define and own the long-term architecture for embedded firmware across Heron products
- Establish reusable platform software, hardware abstraction layers, and shared infrastructure
- Set coding...