Senior/Staff 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 Overvie

wAs a Staff/Senior Staff Embedded Software Enginee r, you will be a key technical force behind Heron's embedded firmware platform — driving architecture decisions, raising the bar on quality and reliability, and delivering high-impact firmware across the full stack of our power conversion products

.You'll work closely with the firmware, controls, and cloud teams to define how our converters are operated and monitored at the device level: from RTOS architecture to bootloaders, diagnostics, safety infrastructure, and production firmware processes. This role blends deep hands-on engineering with system architecture and technical leadership

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Why This Role Is Differe

ntYou'll work at the heart of the team building the device brain — close enough to the metal to matter, with enough scope to shape how the platform grows. You'll drive meaningful architecture decisions, raise the technical bar, and partner across firmware, controls, and cloud to ship a complete solutio

n.If you want real ownership over hard problems — and enjoy pulling others up alongside you — you'll thrive her

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How You Will Contrib

uteArchitecture & Technical Leaders

• hipContribute to and drive the architecture for embedded firmware across Heron produ
• ctsParticipate actively in design reviews, identify systemic risks, and help establish coding standards and engineering practi
• cesServe as a technical resource and informal mentor for other embedded engine
• ersCollaborate across firmware and hardware boundaries on system-level decisi

onsReal-Time & Control Firmw

• areImplement and improve RTOS-based firmware for high-performance power convers
• ionDesign and build low-latency control infrastructure, fault management, telemetry, real-time scheduling, and key drivers and peripherals (PWM, ADC, communications, et
• c.)Evaluate and select microcontrollers/SoCs for new platfo
• rmsBuild safety-critical and high-reliability firmware syst

emsDevice Infrastruct

• ureDesign bootloaders, secure firmware architecture, and update mechani
• smsImplement logging, diagnostics, tracing, and observability tools on-dev
• iceDefine device-side communication interfaces and data mod

elsQuality & Tool

• ingDefine unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop testing strateg
• iesImprove developer tooling and validation pipeli

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What You Will B

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Must-Have Require

• ments6+ years of embedded firmware development with shipped pr
• oductExpert-level embedded
• C/C++Deep experience with RTOS, bootloaders, and low-level hardware dr
• iversExperience working within and contributing to large embedded system architec
• turesFamiliarity with firmware CI/CD and automated testing frame
• worksStrong hardware debugging skills (oscilloscope, logic analyzer,
• etc.)Collaborative mindset and interest in growing other engi

neersNice-to-

• HavesReal-time control systems or power electronics exper
• ienceSafety-critical or high-reliability firmware (IEC 61508, UL1998,
• etc.)Secure boot and device security exper
• ienceExperience integrating embedded systems with cloud/IoT plat
• formsFPGA or ASIC famili
• arityProduction manufacturing and field support exper

ienceIf you are passionate about technology and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, we would love to hear from you. Join us in accelerating the electrification of everything at Heron P

ower.Heron Power provides competitive compensation (salary and equity) and benefits. The salary for this role ranges from $150,000 to $220,000 per