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# Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Connected Systems at Heron Power

- **Company:** Heron Power
- **Location:** Scotts Valley, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/heron-power/d63fd8e3-8676-4110-855e-2f2e790c524b

## Job description

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 and software 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 Software Engineer, you will contribute to building scalable Connected Systems software, including telemetry pipelines, fleet management, system fault analysis, diagnostics, configuration management, and secure firmware updates for grid-connected energy systems. You will participate in design, build, and operation of key components of Heron Power's Connected Systems platform. You'll work across edge devices, cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, backend services, and user-facing applications used to monitor, diagnose, and operate grid-connected energy systems. You will own meaningful components and services, contribute to production-critical capabilities, and collaborate closely with embedded, hardware, test, manufacturing, and frontend engineers to help deliver reliable, secure, and scalable end-to-end systems. We're looking for a hands-on engineer who builds production software, solving complex distributed systems problems, and working across multiple engineering disciplines. You have experience delivering substantial software systems and owning technical outcomes from component design through operation.

## Why This Role Is Different

This role owns critical components of larger software platform that enables smart functionality across Heron products and systems. You will create software that will run on energy-critical infrastructure deployed in challenging environments with limited connectivity and limited access. You will contribute to enabling Heron Care – industry first support and maintenance program ensuring continuous unit operation and supportability for extended periods of time. You will work on data systems that capture fleet-scale telemetry since device inception through decades of field operations.

## How You Will Contribute

Core Responsibilities

- Build scalable backend services and data platforms for industrial IoT deployments.
- Build telemetry ingestion, processing, storage, and analytics pipelines supporting fleet monitoring and system fault analysis.
- Develop services and workflows for diagnostics, remote troubleshooting, asset lifecycle tracking, and over-the-air firmware updates.
- Implement APIs, event-driven services, and data models that enable reliable integration across Connected Systems, Firmware, Manufacturing, and System Test.
- Contribute to software quality through code reviews, testing strategies, observability, and operational excellence.

Collaboration

- Work closely with embedded software engineers on Cabinet Gateway integration, telemetry collection, and firmware management.
- Collaborate with Manufacturing and System Test teams to improve data availability, traceability, and operational workflows.
- Partner with DevOps and infrastructure teams on CI/CD, deployment automation, and observability.
- Support development of customer-facing tools and dashboards for monitoring system performance and health.
- Share technical input with engineering leadership on roadmap and prioritization decisions.

## What You Will Bring

Must-Have Requirements

- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of significant components of a distributed system.
- Experience contributing to complex software products from design through production deployment.
- Experience building, or contributing to, industrial IoT, telemetry, fleet management, or other large-scale connected systems.
- Strong experience designing and implementing backend services in Python, Golang, Rust, Java, or similar languages.
- Experience building telemetry ingestion, stream processing, or event-driven systems using Kafka or cloud-native equivalents.
- Solid understanding of APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and data platform design.
- Experience collaborating across firmware, hardware, manufacturing, test, and software teams.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in production environments.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with fault detection, diagnostics, or prognostics systems.
- Familiarity with industrial networking, SCADA, or edge computing architectures.
- Experience with frontend technologies such as React.
- Experience building systems supporting remote device management and firmware updates.

If 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. Heron Power provides competitive compensation (salary and equity) and benefits. The salary for this role ranges from $163,000 to $207,000 per year.

## 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. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/heron-power](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/heron-power)

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