--- title: 'Intern, Graphic Design at Heron Power' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/intern-graphic-design-heron-power-scotts-valley-tmjw3yenfn1n' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-07' --- # Intern, Graphic Design at Heron Power - **Company:** Heron Power - **Location:** Scotts Valley, CA - **Employment:** internship - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-05 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/heron-power/bae114cc-1b1c-41f8-a391-eb8cb21aed3f ## Job description What to Expect Heron Power Electronics is building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. We aim to remove the bottlenecks holding back the growth of electricity generation and consumption with scalable, innovative, and less costly hardware—helping accelerate 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 Power’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 We believe great design is an important part of building great technology. Heron is more than the machines we build. It is also our spaces, graphics, photography, events, apparel, website, documentation, and all the small details that shape how people experience the company. We’re building that identity now. As a Graphic Design Intern, you’ll work closely with Heron leadership to help develop and bring the Heron brand to life across a wide range of projects. You’ll have the opportunity to work on real things that get made, printed, installed, worn, shared, and used. This is a hands-on role for someone with strong visual instincts who is excited about building a brand—not just maintaining one. ## What You’ll Work On Your projects could include: - Developing graphics, layouts, typography, illustrations, icons, diagrams, and other elements of Heron’s visual language. - Creating environmental graphics, signage, wayfinding, and visual moments throughout our offices and factory. - Designing apparel, swag, stickers, packaging, and other physical brand objects. - Supporting the design of presentations, recruiting materials, technical graphics, social content, and company communications. - Helping develop graphics and experiences for events, product launches, factory tours, and trade shows. - Exploring ways to make complex engineering and energy concepts visually clear, compelling, and approachable. - Building and extending templates, graphic systems, and brand tools that help Heron communicate consistently. - Working with printers, fabricators, vendors, and other partners to turn designs into real things. - Pitching ideas. Making things. Trying things. Helping us discover what the Heron brand can become. ## What You’ll Bring We’re looking for a designer with strong graphic design fundamentals, good taste, curiosity, high level of craft both digitally and physically, and a desire to make things. You don’t need to know how to do everything on day one. We care about how you think, what you notice, the quality of your work, and how excited you are to make cool stuff. Must-Haves - Currently studying or recently graduated from a graphic design, communication design, visual design, or related program—or an exceptional portfolio demonstrating equivalent ability. - A portfolio showing strong visual thinking and craft. - Strong fundamentals in typography, layout, composition, hierarchy, color, and image-making. - Comfort working in tools such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign and/or Figma, etc. - Interest in brand identity and how a visual system extends across many different mediums. - A willingness to move between big ideas and small details. - Curiosity, low ego, initiative, and enthusiasm for working with people from different disciplines. - Heart. We are rebuilding the American grid and laying the foundation for more abundant, efficient, sustainable energy. That should mean something to you. Nice-to-Haves - Experience or interest in environmental graphics, signage, or wayfinding. - Illustration, photography, motion, animation, gen-AI tools, or 3D skills. - Experience designing apparel, merchandise, packaging, or other physical objects. - Interest in industrial design, architecture, manufacturing, engineering, or technology. - Experience preparing artwork for print/manufacture or working with fabricators and vendors. - An instinct for finding the fun, unexpected, or memorable expression of a brand. This is a chance to help build the visual world of a young technology company from the ground up. One day you might be designing a graphic for the factory wall, the next a technical diagram, a T-shirt, an event experience, or something we haven’t thought of yet. If you’re a young designer with great visual instincts who wants to make a lot of real things—and help define what a new American engineering company looks and feels like—we’d love to hear from you. ## About Heron Power ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Heron Power develops next-generation medium-voltage power electronics, including solid-state transformers, to modernize the electrical grid for AI data centers, renewable energy, and surging electricity demand. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: Scotts Valley, California, United States - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Drew Baglino ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Electric Power Transmission, Control, and Distribution; Industrial Power Electronics; Energy Infrastructure - **Target customers**: B2B — hyperscale data center operators, solar and storage developers, utility-scale energy project developers, and the broader electricity sector. - **Mission or purpose statement**: To build power electronics purpose-built for the 21st-century grid, helping the electricity sector grow faster and more affordably with scalable, reliable, and software-integrated infrastructure. ## Products & Services - **Heron Link for Data Centers**: An integrated solid-state transformer + SuperBBU (battery backup unit) solution purpose-built for AI and hyperscale power needs, enabling more efficient, scalable, and reliable power delivery. - **Heron Link for Solar & Storage**: An integrated solid-state transformer and inverter in one infinitely scalable platform, designed to streamline the connection of renewable generation and battery storage to the grid. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$178 million** across two rounds (Series A: $38M led by Capricorn Investment Group in June 2025; Series B: $140M led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz in February 2026). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: - **Investors**: Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz (American Dynamism Fund), Capricorn Investment Group, Gigascale Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Energy Impact Partners, Powerhouse. - **Advisors**: JB Straubel (Tesla Co-Founder), Zach Kirkhorn (Former Tesla CFO). - **Strategic Partner**: LG Energy Solution Vertech (collaboration to integrate Heron Link with U.S.-manufactured battery energy storage systems). - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount has grown **975% year-over-year** to 72 employees, with 58 active job postings. - Awarded **$26.375 million** in tax credit incentives from the state of California to build a 40-gigawatt manufacturing facility and create 600+ advanced manufacturing jobs. - Rapidly scaling from engineering prototypes to early customer deployments with major industry partners. ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep technical moat**: Heron’s core technology is an integrated solid-state transformer (SST) — a fundamental re-architecture of medium-voltage power electronics that is more scalable, software-integrated, and efficient than traditional copper-and-iron transformers. - **Founder pedigree**: CEO Drew Baglino was a 18-year veteran and SVP of Powertrain and Energy at Tesla, where he led development of the 4680 battery cell, Megapack, and built multi-billion-dollar energy and charging businesses. - **Strategic backing**: Backed by a world-class syndicate of climate-tech and deep-tech investors (Breakthrough Energy, a16z, Valor) and advised by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel and former Tesla CFO Zach Kirkhorn. - **Manufacturing-first approach**: Already planning a 40 GW U.S. manufacturing facility with state incentives secured, signaling a focus on high-volume, cost-competitive production from the start. ## Strategic Focus - **Scale manufacturing**: Building out a large-scale U.S. factory to meet demand from AI data centers and renewable energy projects. - **Commercial deployment**: Moving from engineering prototypes to delivering integrated solutions with strategic partners like LG Energy Solution Vertech. - **Debottleneck the grid**: Targeting the critical infrastructure bottleneck where traditional transformers and grid equipment cannot keep pace with surging electricity demand from AI, electrification, and renewables. ## Why Work Here - **High-impact mission**: Work on foundational hardware that directly enables the energy transition and AI infrastructure — systems that will be deployed and operated for decades. - **Engineering culture**: Values rapid iteration ("build, test, learn"), first-principles reasoning, and cross-functional collaboration across hardware, software, manufacturing, and operations. - **Ownership and autonomy**: Strong emphasis on taking accountability for outcomes, not just tasks, and working across team boundaries to deliver an impeccable product. - **Transparent and direct**: Culture prizes clear communication, honest feedback, and progress over posturing — "no defensiveness, no ego." - **Location and flexibility**: Based in Scotts Valley, California (near Santa Cruz/Silicon Valley), with a presence in Canada. The work is highly hands-on (hardware, lab, factory), so on-site presence is expected for engineering roles. - **Growth trajectory**: Explosive headcount growth (975% YoY) and 58 open roles across electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, software, and supply chain disciplines — offering significant career acceleration for early hires. - **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work alongside a team with deep expertise from Tesla, Meta, and KKR, with direct mentorship from a proven founder. ## Sources 1. [heronpower.com](https://heronpower.com/) 2. [heronpower.com/about](https://heronpower.com/about) 3. [heronpower.com/careers](https://heronpower.com/careers) 4. [linkedin.com/company/heron-power-electronics](https://www.linkedin.com/company/heron-power-electronics) 5. 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