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Salary: USD 120,000 - 220,000 / annual
Heron Power is a startup building cutting-edge power electronics for grid modernization. The company focuses on designing better converters (inverters and rectifiers) to connect large-scale renewables, storage, and loads to the grid, with the goal of accelerating electrification. The leadership team comprises seasoned veterans with a decade of experience shipping gigawatts of power conversion products.
In this role, you will design, develop, and validate medium-voltage power electronics systems. You will own mechanical parts and assemblies from concept through high-volume production, working across the full lifecycle of product development.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design mass-manufacturable parts and assemblies for power converters (enclosures, plastics, heatsinks, insulators, transformers, connectors, PCBAs, bolted joints, adhesive joints)
- Own designs from initial concept to high-volume production
- Apply first-principles design approach, optimizing through structural, thermal, and tolerance analysis
- Create 3D designs and 2D drawings using CATIA V6/3DX
- Perform hands-on prototyping and testing
- Collaborate with electrical, manufacturing, reliability, and test engineering teams, plus external suppliers
The company emphasizes a collaborative, learning-oriented environment driven by first-principles engineering and solving difficult problems.
REQUIREMENTS:
Must-have:
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, mechatronics, or similar
- 4+ years of full-time industry experience
- Demonstrated exceptional ability designing mechanical parts or assemblies
- Demonstrated exceptional ability with 3D CAD (CATIA V6/3DX preferred)
- Strong engineering fundamentals including basic electronics understanding
- Experience designing electromechanical parts or assemblies
- Experience with high-volume manufacturing processes (fastening, sheet metal bending, stamping, injection molding, diecasting, extruding, dispensing)
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Nice-to-haves:
- Experience designing power electronics converters
- Experience with PCBAs, connectors, fuses, and electronic components
- Experience with FEA, CFD, multi-physics modeling (Ansys, MATLAB, Python, Simulink, StarCCM)
- Experience with GD&T and tolerance analysis
- Experience with reliability and validation testing, DFMEAs
- Experience with product lifecycle management (PLM) and controlled release processes
- Experience with medium-voltage (34.5kV) or grid-related products
