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Heron Power is building cutting-edge power electronics for grid modernization, focusing on converters (inverters and rectifiers) to connect large-scale renewables, storage, and loads. The company is backed by seasoned veterans with a track record of designing and shipping gigawatts of power conversion products.
As Reliability Engineering Lead, you will drive reliability-by-design across Heron's power electronics products from concept through field deployment, using Physics of Failure (PoF) and Design for Reliability (DFR) principles. You'll set corporate-level reliability strategy and partner across Electrical, Mechanical, Firmware/Software, Quality, Product, and Commercial teams.
Key responsibilities include: defining product reliability requirements while balancing against cost, schedule, and manufacturability; setting corporate reliability strategy and goals; applying PoF and DFR principles to identify dominant failure mechanisms early; deriving mission profiles from real-world use conditions and translating them into accelerated life test (ALT) calculations; building and maintaining reliability models (Weibull, FMEA, fault tree analysis); owning field reliability strategy and closing the loop between field data and design assumptions; partnering with Product and Commercial teams to define warranty terms aligned with the company's full lifetime warranty commitment; optimizing lifecycle cost as a design attribute; and mentoring/leading a growing team of reliability engineers.
This is a strategy-setting role where you'll build and scale the reliability engineering function as the company grows, rather than executing within an established process. You'll own the full arc from physics to business outcome—mission profiles through field data to warranty terms—and have direct influence on product architecture and system-level decisions.
Required: Bachelor's or advanced degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Reliability, or related Engineering discipline; demonstrated depth in PoF and DFR methodologies with understanding of failure mechanisms (fatigue, thermal, electromigration, corrosion); hands-on experience deriving mission profiles and translating them into ALT calculations; experience defining reliability requirements accounting for cost, schedule, and business risk tradeoffs; strong grounding in reliability statistics (Weibull analysis, censored data, confidence intervals, FMEA/FTA); demonstrated cross-functional collaboration with engineering and quality teams; experience designing for maintainability, serviceability, and system availability; demonstrated ability to partner with Product and Commercial teams on warranty and design targets.
Nice-to-haves: end-to-end field reliability strategy ownership; prior experience setting reliability strategy at organizational level; published research or industry papers in reliability.
