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We aim to debottleneck the growth of electricity generation and consumption with scalable, innovative, and cost-effective 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’s leadership team is made up of seasoned veterans who have designed and shipped gigawatts of power conversion products.\nWe 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.\nJob Overview\nAs a Senior/ Staff Embedded Software Engineer, you will be a key technical force behind Heron's embedded firmware platform - driving architecture decisions, raising the bar on quality and reliability, and delivering high-impact firmware across the full stack of our power conversion products.\nYou'll work closely with the firmware, controls, and cloud teams to define how our converters are operated and monitored at the device level: from RTOS architecture to bootloaders, diagnostics, safety infrastructure, and production firmware processes. This role blends deep hands-on engineering with system architecture and technical leadership.\nWhy This Role Is Different\nYou'll work at the heart of the team building the device brain - close enough to the metal to matter, with enough scope to shape how the platform grows. You'll drive meaningful architecture decisions, raise the technical bar, and partner across firmware, controls, and cloud to ship a complete solution.\nIf you want real ownership over hard problems - and enjoy pulling others up alongside you - you'll thrive here.\nHow You Will Contribute\nArchitecture & Technical Leadership\nContribute to and drive the architecture for embedded firmware across Heron products\n\nParticipate actively in design reviews, identify systemic risks, and help establish coding standards and engineering practices\n\nServe as a technical resource and informal mentor for other embedded engineers\n\nCollaborate across firmware and hardware boundaries on system-level decisions\n\n Real-Time & Control Firmware\nImplement and improve RTOS-based firmware for high-performance power conversion\n\nDesign and build low-latency control infrastructure, fault management, telemetry, real-time scheduling, and key drivers and peripherals (PWM, ADC, communications, etc.)\n\nEvaluate and select microcontrollers/SoCs for new platforms\n\nBuild safety-critical and high-reliability firmware systems\n\nDevice Infrastructure\nDesign bootloaders, secure firmware architecture, and update mechanisms\n\nImplement logging, diagnostics, tracing, and observability tools on-device\n\nDefine device-side communication interfaces and data models\n\nQuality & Tooling\nDefine unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop testing strategies\n\nImprove developer tooling and validation pipelines\n\nWhat You Will Bring\n Must-Have Requirements\n5+ years of embedded firmware development with shipped product\n\nExpert-level embedded C/C++\n\nDeep experience with RTOS, bootloaders, and low-level hardware drivers\n\nExperience working within and contributing to large embedded system architectures\n\nFamiliarity with firmware CI/CD and automated testing frameworks\n\nStrong hardware debugging skills (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, etc.)\n\nCollaborative mindset and interest in growing other engineers\n\n Nice-to-Haves\nReal-time control systems or power electronics experience\n\nSafety-critical or high-reliability firmware (IEC 61508, UL1998, etc.)\n\nSecure boot and device security experience\n\nExperience integrating embedded systems with cloud/IoT platforms\n\nFPGA or ASIC familiarity\n\nProduction manufacturing and field support experience\n\nIf 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.\nHeron Power provides competitive compensation (salary and equity) and benefits. 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