What to Expect

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.

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 over the past decade.

We understand that no one individual knows everything. We will all learn a lot together and from each other. We strive to build a collaborative, enriching environment conducive to personal, technical, and career growth. You can expect to work in a dynamic environment, driven by first principles engineering, solving difficult problems—with a strong bias toward hands-on execution and learning by doing.

Job Overview

High-reliability products are built on high-quality test infrastructure.

As the Hardware Validation Systems Developer, you will build the automated hardware test infrastructure that allows us to validate and ship at scale—from PCBA-level functional circuit testing through subsystem validation, end-of-line system testing and all the way to test systems developed for high volume manufacturing of low-voltage electronics and high-power converter assemblies.

You will architect and deliver complete automated test cells that integrate power hardware, instrumentation, control software, and data pipelines into reliable, repeatable production and engineering tools.

This role owns the lifecycle loop from:

test requirements → coverage strategy → test architecture → fixture/bench design → automation software → deployment → sustainment → regression and continuous improvement.

If you like turning “we need a test” into a working system that engineering and manufacturing can depend on, this role will feel like home.

How You Will Contribute

Test Strategy & Architecture (PCBA → System → EOL)

• Define functional test coverage for PCBAs, subsystems, and full systems.

• Architect test solutions balancing coverage, cycle time, cost, and maintainability.

• Partner with design engineering to drive Design-for-Test (DFT): test points, boundary scan, firmware testing , and observability.

• Define regression strategy to prevent re-learning the same lessons across builds and firmware releases.