Staff/Senior Staff Embedded Software Engineer
About The Position
Heron Power is a startup focused on developing advanced power electronics for the modern electricity grid. The company's mission is to accelerate the electrification of everything by creating scalable, innovative, and cost-effective hardware solutions, starting with improved converters (inverters & rectifiers) for large-scale renewables, storage, and loads. The leadership team comprises experienced professionals with a proven track record in power conversion products. Heron Power fosters a collaborative, technically deep environment where individuals can take ownership and make a significant impact. The Staff/Senior Staff Embedded Software Engineer will be a critical technical contributor to Heron's embedded firmware platform, influencing architectural decisions, enhancing quality and reliability, and delivering firmware for the company's power conversion products. This role involves working closely with firmware, controls, and cloud teams to define device-level operations and monitoring, encompassing RTOS architecture, bootloaders, diagnostics, safety infrastructure, and production firmware processes. The position combines hands-on engineering with system architecture and technical leadership, offering significant ownership and the opportunity to shape the platform's growth.
Requirements
- 6+ years of embedded firmware development with shipped product.
- Expert-level embedded C/C++.
- Deep experience with RTOS, bootloaders, and low-level hardware drivers.
- Experience working within and contributing to large embedded system architectures.
- Familiarity with firmware CI/CD and automated testing frameworks.
- Strong hardware debugging skills (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, etc.).
- Collaborative mindset and interest in growing other engineers.
Nice To Haves
- Real-time control systems or power electronics experience.
- Safety-critical or high-reliability firmware (IEC 61508, UL1998, etc.).
- Secure boot and device security experience.
- Experience integrating embedded systems with cloud/IoT platforms.
- FPGA or ASIC familiarity.
- Production manufacturing and field support experience.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to and drive the architecture for embedded firmware across Heron products.
- Participate actively in design reviews, identify systemic risks, and help establish coding standards and engineering practices.
- Serve as a technical resource and informal mentor for other embedded engineers.
- Collaborate across firmware and hardware boundaries on system-level decisions.
- Implement and improve RTOS-based firmware for high-performance power conversion.
- Design and build low-latency control infrastructure, fault management, telemetry, real-time scheduling, and key drivers and peripherals (PWM, ADC, communications, etc.).
- Evaluate and select microcontrollers/SoCs for new platforms.
- Build safety-critical and high-reliability firmware systems.
- Design bootloaders, secure firmware architecture, and update mechanisms.
- Implement logging, diagnostics, tracing, and observability tools on-device.
- Define device-side communication interfaces and data models.
- Define unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop testing strategies.
- Improve developer tooling and validation pipelines.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation (salary and equity)
- Benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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