What to Expect

Heron Power is a startup company 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.

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 and collaborative environment, driven by first principles engineering, solving difficult problems.

Job Overview

As an Intern, Power Electronics Controls Engineer, you will be responsible for dynamic modeling, controller design, implementation, and validation for power converters. Additionally, you will be responsible for system analysis and integration.

How You Will Contribute

• Evaluate system-level requirements and translate to dynamic performance and controls specs

• Analyze and model candidate converter topologies and architectures, and work with the hardware team to evaluate engineering trade-offs

• Outline and design controller architecture to achieve design and dynamic objectives

• Capture controller design in Matlab/Simulink

• Perform small-signal modeling aimed at tuning and stabilizing controller responses

• Review electrical schematics and suggest changes to ensure signal acquisition and the plant are well-designed to handle transients and edge-cases

• Translate algorithms from Simulink into embedded code (in C language)

• Create and utilize hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) setups for validation

• Work with hardware team to perform prototype bring-up and validation

• Create and execute dynamic stress-test plans

• Design and support special behaviors required for thermal, reliability, and compliance tests