Systems Validation Engineer (Hardware)
Heron PowerScotts Valley, California, United States
Posted February 25, 2026
130000 - 200000 USD
Full Time
About the Company
Heron Power designs and manufactures advanced power electronics that enable the next-generation electrical grid. The company focuses on delivering scalable, efficient, and resilient hardware solutions that reduce deployment costs and accelerate the electrification of industries. By debottlenecking the growth of electricity generation and consumption, Heron Power supports the global transition to sustainable energy. Its culture of continuous innovation and commitment to cost-effective technology positions the firm as a leader in modern grid infrastructure.
Job Description
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, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience in systems integration, bring-up, validation, or test of low-voltage electronics in complex products (embedded systems strongly preferred).
- Demonstrated ownership across a meaningful chunk of a product lifecycle (prototype → iteration → validation, or development → field issues → corrective actions).
- Strong fundamentals across embedded behavior and system interfaces: sensors, signal conditioning, I/O, power distribution, grounding/shielding, and comms networks (CAN, Ethernet, RS-485, SPI/I2C, etc.).
- Hands-on integration/debugging experience (instrumentation, logs/telemetry, firmware interaction, logic analyzers/scopes, CAN or similar comms tools).
- Ability to move between high-level architecture definition and lab-level hands-on test execution.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation (salary and equity)
- Benefits