Staff/Senior Staff Firmware Integration 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 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 DIFFERENT
This 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 CONTRIBUTE
- Working 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 developm...