Heron Power
Senior/Staff Power Electronics Engineer
$120K–$200K
Scotts Valley · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 3 years of hands-on power-converter design, prototyping, testing, and industrialization experience.
- Education
- Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Work authorization in the United States.
About the job
Leads the design and development of grid-connected power converter hardware from architecture through validation, industrialization, and production.
What you'll do
- Architect, design, and deliver grid-tied power converters, including modeling, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, testing, and validation.
- Select power components and design protection circuitry while addressing safety and grid standards.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize converter performance and scale designs into production.
What they ask for
- Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience designing, prototyping, testing, and industrializing power converters.
- Expertise in power electronics topologies, high-voltage semiconductor devices, gate drivers, sensing circuits, magnetic components, switching behavior, and loss and thermal modeling.
- Experience with schematic capture, simulation tools, power electronics PCB layout, lab instrumentation, and relevant product safety and grid standards; work authorization in the United States.
Nice to have
- Experience with medium-voltage systems or grid-tied hardware.
- Experience with reliability testing, high-power manufacturing processes, or test automation using Python, LabVIEW, or embedded scripting.
Pay
$120,000 to $200,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
IGBTs, Si/SiC MOSFETs, SPICE, PLECS, LTspice, Simulink, Python, LabVIEW
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