Intern, Project Management, Spring/Summer 2026

Heron Power • Scotts Valley, CA

35d

About The Position

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 focus goal is to build better converters (inverters & rectifiers) to connect large-scale renewables, storage, and loads to the grid. Heron Power’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. The Project Management Intern will support Heron Power’s engineering, operations, and product teams in driving high-quality execution across multiple areas of product launch. In this role, you will gain hands-on experience working within a fast-paced hardware environment, helping to coordinate timelines, track deliverables, and improve project workflows. You will work closely with project managers and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure that engineering milestones, prototype builds, and operational tasks are completed on schedule. This internship is ideal for someone who is highly organized, detail-oriented, and eager to learn how complex hardware products move from concept to production.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in electrical, mechanical, industrial engineering or equivalent and demonstrated exceptional ability
• Proficient in using Project Management tools to establish right-to-left gantt representation of programs, including identification of critical path
• Excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills with a collaborative mindset, capable of influencing engineering, operations and executive teams
• Self-starter with a bias for action, who thrives in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment, and is comfortable building from scratch
• Excellent problem-solving skills and meticulous attention to detail

Nice To Haves

• Experience and familiarity in hardware, manufacturing, or infrastructure projects, with a track record of delivering complex, cross-functional programs
• Hands-on hardware assembly, diagnostic experience in a power electronics environment a plus
• Experience in layout software, such as AutoCAD, DraftSight, Revit or equivalent
• Proficiency in Project Management tools, such as MS Project, Smartsheet, Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence), Asana, Notion

Responsibilities

• Responsible for planning, scheduling and tracking cross-functional engineering and manufacturing projects from ideation to completion
• Maintain project timelines, deliverables, and action item lists across engineering, operations, supply-chain, reliability, compliance and manufacturing
• Prepare and update project documentation, meeting notes and status reports
• Organize and contribute to team standups, reviews and planning meetings
• Track progress against key milestones and update internal tools (e.g. JIRA, or other PM systems)
• Own risk visibility and champion a “no surprises culture”: raise flags early, clearly and loudly to ensure the right conversations happen before issues become blockers
• Be a force multiplier: increase team velocity, reduce ambiguity, and raise the bar on product excellence through smart prioritization and exceptional execution

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees