What to Expect 

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’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.

Job Overview

As a product compliance engineer you are responsible to identify all regulatory and technical hurdles Heron’s products must clear on the path to market. Then, in collaboration with the design engineering team, will demonstrate Heron's products meet or exceed all requirements, achieve all certifications, and successfully enter target markets.

How You Will Contribute

• Interpret compliance requirements from UL, IEC, FCC, and other regulatory bodies to inform Heron’s path to successful listing for each product and new market entry.

• Partner with engineering leads in all phases of product development on compliance-relevant product architecture and design decisions, bringing first-principles-informed, can-do creativity

• Collaboratively establish and execute the compliance test plan, identifying and building the required test resources, equipment and personnel within Heron Power to hit program timing with successful product listing

• Identify and formalize healthy, high performance nationally recognized testing laboratory relationships and manage them to successful compliance project delivery.

• Define and maintain client test data acceptance programs with NRTLs to accelerate compliance program execution.

• Manage business risk through scenario assessment of compliance program timing, evolving codes and standards (that you directly engage in the development of), and proactive engagement with AHJs and other approving entities. Partner with the engineering team to identify/mitigate compliance risks.

• Develop white papers supporting product compliance and deployment, support regional codes and standards activities, participate in local utility meetings and hearings as necessary enable Heron’s product roadmap

What You Will Bring

We have a short list of must-have requirements. We prioritize candidates with a strong grip on first principles, hands-on skills, and initiative. 

Must-Have Requirements 

• Undergraduate degree in electrical engineering or equivalent

• More than 3 years experience in regulatory and compliance certification for solar, wind, battery or other power electronics products

• Deep understanding and familiarity with relevant UL/IEC/EN, IEEE, and ISO standards and how they inform the design and certification process of grid-connected power electronics systems

• Ability to thrive in ambiguity, relying on your first principles engineering experience to identify creative solutions to hard problems.

• Capability to remain engaged, proactive, and positive under pressure, owning assignments and taking full accountability

• Effective communicator and negotiator with excellent attention to detail.

• Hands on experience designing and operating test equipment and data acquisition systems, such as oscilloscopes, power and spectrum analyzers, data loggers, etc.

• Experience performing and troubleshooting EMC and surge / lightning tests; working knowledge with signal generators, antennas, coupling clamps, field probes, ESD simulators, etc. 

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience designing or testing medium-voltage systems (e.g., 5kV–35kV), including insulation coordination, clearance/creepage, and partial discharge considerations.

• Familiarity with grid-tied hardware such as medium-voltage converters, switchgear, circuit breakers, or protective relays.

• Knowledge of insulation materials, shielding techniques, and arc flash mitigation for high-voltage systems.

• Exposure to manufacturing processes and material selection for high-power assemblies (e.g., busbars, potting, conformal coating, HV connectors).

• Hands-on experience with test automation using Python, LabVIEW, or embedded scripting for power hardware validation.

• Participation in product-relevant standards committees

• Working experience of UL1741, IEEE 1547, IEEE 2800, IEC 62109-1, IEC 62109-2, IEC 62040, IEC 62477, UL 9540A, UL 1998, UL 840, FCC Part 15B, CISPR 22, IEC 61000-x

If you are passionate about technology and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, we would love to hear from you. Join us in accelerating the electrification of everything at Heron Power.

Heron Power provides competitive compensation (salary and equity) and benefits. The salary for this role ranges from $125,000 to $200,000 per year.