Staff/Senior Staff Firmware Integration Engineer

Heron Power•Scotts Valley, CA

3d•$170,000 - $240,000

About The Position

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. As a Staff/Senior Staff Firmware Integration Engineer, you will own the process that takes Heron's software from development to release — ensuring every feature, fix, and architectural change lands correctly, safely, and on time to support company goals. This role owns overall health of the software in Heron’s products, ensuring the work comes together coherently, releases are scoped with intention, and validation is sufficiently rigorous. If you thrive bringing order to complexity and take pride in shipping quality code, this is the role for you.

Requirements

7+ years in embedded firmware development, with at least one role focused on software integration, validation, or release engineering
Hands-on embedded C/C++ — enough to read and review software contributions critically
Experience with SIL (software-in-the-loop) and HIL (hardware-in-the-loop) test infrastructure
Experience owning or managing firmware release cycles on shipped hardware products
Strong understanding of RTOS-based systems, hardware abstraction, and embedded system architecture
Demonstrated ability to hold a high-quality bar in a high-paced environment
Clear, direct communicator who can translate between engineering depth and program-level decisions

Nice To Haves

Power electronics or energy conversion domain experience
Hardware debugging skills (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, JTAG) — comfortable on the bench when validation requires it
Familiarity with safety-critical firmware standards (IEC 61508, UL1998)
Background in software CI/CD pipeline development or test automation
Exposure with OTA update mechanisms and fleet management
Manufacturing test and production qualification experience

Responsibilities

Own the definition and scope of software releases, change control over what is in, out, or deferred, and why.
Translate program milestones and field requirements into concrete software release targets.
Triage feature requests and bug fixes against business needs.
Identify integration risks for each change and most efficient means of validation.
Maintain traceability between requirements, implementation, and test coverage.
Develop integration guidelines, guide the creation of test assets, and accelerate the iterative development / test loop for all team members.
Manage ticket burndowns for each release and go/no-go decisionmaking, ensuring overall program goals are met with minimum compromises.
Captain and define the OTA strategy and tooling, including field soak strategies, coordination with customers, and factory deployment.