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# Staff Supplier Industrialization Engineer - Mechanical at Heron Power

- **Company:** Heron Power
- **Location:** Scotts Valley, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/heron-power/c12991fa-fb58-4966-8899-1112e7ae7636

## Job description

Supplier Industrialization Engineer - Mechanical

What to Expect Heron Power is a startup company 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 less costly 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 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 As Heron Power’s Supplier Industrialization Engineer — Mechanical, you will take ownership of supplier development and manufacturing readiness across Heron’s mechanical supply base. You’ll collaborate closely with the Head of Supply Chain as well as senior leaders from engineering, NPI, reliability and manufacturing to drive strategic supplier partnerships. You will ensure the technical success of Heron’s mechanical supply chain, overseeing supplier performance, manufacturing processes, tooling, and quality systems. This is a highly technical role with significant ownership across supplier qualification, DFM, NPI, production ramp, and continuous improvement, with potential for advancement into a leadership position.

## How You Will Contribute

- Develop Heron’s mechanical supplier capabilities through technical capability assessments and manufacturing process improvement initiatives.
- Lead supplier qualification to ensure sustained high-quality, cost-effective, and timely delivery of critical mechanical components and assemblies.
- Facilitate clear communication of technical requirements between suppliers and Heron’s supply chain, design and manufacturing teams.
- Drive supplier DFM/DFA reviews, drawing reviews, GD&T, assembly stack-up tolerance analysis, and ensure manufacturing processes can meet design requirements.
- Lead industrialization and supplier development across die casting, injection molding, plastics, sheet metal, stamping, machining, busbars, cold plates, tooling, and potting/encapsulation processes.
- Drive tooling development and qualification, including molds, dies, fixtures, and production equipment.
- Contribute to the evaluation of new or alternative materials and manufacturing processes for improved design, manufacturability, reliability, or cost reduction.
- Identify and drive cost reduction activities through process, material, tooling, yield, and manufacturing optimization.

## What You Will Bring

Must Have Requirements

- 8+ years of experience in supplier development, supplier quality, manufacturing engineering, supplier industrialization, or a related field.
- BS degree in mechanical, manufacturing, industrial, materials engineering, or demonstrable equivalent experience and exceptional ability.
- In-depth knowledge of mechanical manufacturing processes and supplier industrialization, with demonstrated experience taking components from design through production.
- Skilled in detailed drawing reviews, GD&T, tolerance stack-ups, metrology, and statistical data analysis techniques including SPC, DOE, and sampling plans.
- Comprehensive understanding of quality management systems and standards such as ISO 9001 and PPAP.
- Demonstrated ability to independently assess supplier manufacturing capabilities, identify process risks, and drive corrective actions through production.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally often with short notice.

Nice to Haves

- Prior experience in manufacturing and/or process engineering focused on die casting, injection molding, plastics, stamping, sheet metal fabrication, machining, busbars, cold plates, tooling, or potting.
- Experience with power electronics, power conversion, thermal management, or other complex electromechanical products.
- Experience with ERP and PLM tools to support BOM control, change management, factory quality, and supplier reporting.
- Strong data analysis and visualization skills (Tableau, JMP, Minitab, etc.).
- Experience leading supplier industrialization or mentoring engineers in a senior/staff technical capacity.

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.

## 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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