# Senior/Staff Embedded Software Engineer

What to Expect Heron Power is a startup 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 cost-effective hardware solutions, accelerating the electrification of everything. Our 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. We 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. Job Overview As 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. You'll work closely with the firmware, controls, and cloud teams to define how our converters are operated and mo

- **Id**: 3722561
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/heron-power-seniorstaff-embedded-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Scotts Valley, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T00:48:34Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T08:53:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4253
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Power Grid, Power Supplies & Power Electronics

## Company

- **Id**: 5370
- **Name**: Heron Power
- **Domain**: heronpower.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/heronpower>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 86
- **Open postings**: 17
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.353
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 68
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 140000
- **Max**: 220000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 220000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Embedded C** — Optional: no
- **RTOS** — Optional: no
- **C** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T03:20:06Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 68
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 220000
- **Is top pay**: no

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