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We aim to debottleneck the growth of electricity generation and consumption with scalable, innovative, and less costly hardware solutions, accelerating the electrification of everything.\nOur first goal is to build better converters (inverters & rectifiers) to connect large-scale renewables, storage, and loads to the grid. Heron Power’s leadership team is made up of seasoned veterans who have designed and shipped gigawatts of power conversion products over the past decade.\nWe 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.\nJob Overview\nReliability is at the core of our company and everything we design. We stand behind our products with a full lifetime warranty across all applications-a commitment that only holds up if reliability is engineered in from first principles, not bolted on at the end.\nAs our Reliability Engineering Lead, you will drive reliability-by-design across Heron Power’s power electronics products-from concept through field deployment-grounded in Physics of Failure (PoF) and Design for Reliability (DFR) principles rather than generic stress screening. You’ll set reliability strategy at the corporate level and partner across Electrical, Mechanical, Firmware/Software, Quality, Product, and Commercial teams to ensure it’s designed in at every level, from warranty terms through lifecycle cost of ownership.\nHow You Will Contribute\nDefine product reliability requirements, balancing target reliability and failure-rate metrics against cost, schedule, and manufacturability constraints\n\nSet reliability strategy and goals at the corporate level, aligning engineering, product, and manufacturing teams around shared reliability targets and roadmaps\n\nApply Physics of Failure and Design for Reliability principles throughout the product development lifecycle, identifying dominant failure mechanisms early and driving design decisions that mitigate them before hardware exists\n\nDerive mission profiles from real-world use conditions and translate them into accelerated life test (ALT) calculations-acceleration factors, sample size, and test duration\n\nBuild and maintain reliability models (Weibull/lifetime distributions, FMEA, fault tree analysis) to predict failure modes and quantify confidence levels for design decisions\n\nOwn field reliability strategy, closing the loop between field return/failure data and our design, test, and mission-profile assumptions\n\nPartner with Product and Commercial teams to define warranty terms, translating our full lifetime warranty commitment into concrete design targets\n\nOwn the lifecycle cost as a design attribute-driving decisions on service, repair, and system architecture that keep products highly available and cost-effective to operate over decades, beating the competition on lifetime cost of ownership\n\nPartner directly with Electrical, Mechanical, and Firmware/Software engineering teams, as well as the Quality organization, to ensure reliability is designed in at the component and system level\n\nMentor and potentially lead a team of reliability engineers, setting technical direction and reviewing mission-profile derivations, ALT plans, and findings\n\nWhat Makes This Role Different\nThis is a strategy-setting role, not just an execution role-you define reliability requirements and set corporate-level goals rather than apply an existing process.\n\nYou'll have the challenge to build and scale a reliability engineering function as Heron grows, rather than executing within one that's already established.\n\nYou own the full arc from physics to business outcome-mission profiles → ALT plans → field data → warranty terms-closing the loop between design assumptions and real-world performance.\n\nYou’ll have the license to build and scale a reliability engineering function as Heron grows, rather than executing within one that’s already established.\n\nWhat You Will Bring\nWe have a short list of must-have requirements. We prioritize a strong grip on first principles, hands-on skills, and a sense of initiative. Domain-specific knowledge and experience will help determine the career level for each hire.\nMust-Have Requirements\nBachelor’s or advanced degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Reliability, or related Engineering discipline\n\nDemonstrated depth in Physics of Failure (PoF) and Design for Reliability (DFR) methodologies, grounded in underlying failure mechanisms (e.g., fatigue, thermal, electromigration, corrosion)\n\nHands-on experience deriving mission profiles from field/use-condition data and translating them into accelerated life test calculations (acceleration factors, sample size, duration)\n\nExperience defining reliability requirements that explicitly account for cost, schedule, and business risk tradeoffs\n\nStrong grounding in reliability statistics-Weibull analysis, censored data handling, confidence intervals, FMEA/FTA\n\nDemonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with Electrical, Mechanical, and Firmware/Software teams and Quality organizations\n\nExperience designing for maintainability, serviceability, and system availability-translating those attributes into concrete design decisions\n\nDemonstrated experience partnering with Product and Commercial teams to connect warranty/business commitments with engineering design targets\n\nNice-to-Haves\nExperience owning field reliability strategy end-to-end\n\nPrior experience setting reliability strategy or goals at an organizational (not just program) level\n\nPublished research or industry papers in reliability or physics of failure (e.g., IEEE RAMS or equivalent venues)\n\nExperience building or scaling a reliability engineering function or team\n\nExperience in power electronics or related high-reliability hardware domains\n\nIf you are passionate about technology and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, we would love to hear from you. 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