Heron Power · 19 hours ago
Engineering Program Manager
Scotts Valley
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$150K/yr - $200K/yr
5+ years expHeron Power is a startup company building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. As an Engineering Program Manager, you will own the technical execution of the product roadmap from architecture through manufacturing launch, working closely with various teams to ensure successful product delivery.
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Responsibilities
Own and drive the end-to-end technical execution of Heron Power’s first product launch, translating system-level goals into structured, engineering-driven milestones across concept, architecture, validation, and launch
Drive deep coordination between power electronics, firmware/software, and systems integration teams, ensuring hardware and control-software roadmaps are tightly aligned and risks at the interfaces are actively managed
Lead program planning and execution across hardware design, embedded firmware, controls, test, reliability, compliance, supply chain, and manufacturing, with a clear plan of record and critical-path ownership
Partner with technical leads to define product requirements, validation strategies, and decision gates, ensuring design tradeoffs are explicitly documented and understood across teams
Facilitate and contribute to technical design reviews, including architecture reviews, design readiness reviews, and validation readiness reviews, with sufficient depth to surface real risks
Own engineering BOM strategy and NPI readiness, working closely with power electronics engineers and supply chain to balance performance, cost, availability, and manufacturability
Establish and track DFMEA-driven risk management, ensuring risks across design, firmware behavior, system integration, and manufacturing are identified, mitigated, and retired
Be the steward of a 'no surprises' culture: proactively surface technical and execution risks early, drive clarity, and ensure issues are addressed before they become program-blocking failures
Act as a force multiplier across the organization — increasing engineering velocity, reducing ambiguity at interfaces, and raising the bar on execution discipline without slowing innovation
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (power electronics focus strongly preferred) or equivalent demonstrated technical depth
5+ years leading complex, multidisciplinary engineering programs, ideally involving power electronics, embedded firmware, or tightly coupled hardware-software systems
Strong technical foundation in power electronics systems, with the ability to understand converter architectures, control strategies, and system-level tradeoffs well enough to guide execution
Demonstrated ability to work deeply with firmware/software teams, including understanding control loops, timing constraints, interfaces, and hardware-software dependencies
Experience driving programs from concept through validation and manufacturing launch, including prototype builds and design iterations
Strong grasp of DFM principles and the realities of building, testing, and scaling power electronics hardware
Proven ability to distill complex technical programs into clear risks, decisions, and priorities for both engineering and leadership audiences
Comfortable operating in a fast-moving startup environment, with high ownership, ambiguity, and minimal process overhead
Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence across engineering, operations, and leadership teams
Preferred
Hands-on experience designing, validating, or debugging inverters, rectifiers, or other high-power conversion systems
Experience with power electronics simulation and modeling tools (PLECS, MATLAB/Simulink)
Familiarity with embedded firmware development for power electronics or control systems
Proficiency with BOM ownership, PLM systems, change management, and NPI processes
Experience with UL / IEC compliance for power conversion equipment
Familiarity with Enovia PLM, CATIA, or similar tools
Proficiency with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) or similar technical program management platforms
Benefits
Competitive compensation (salary and equity)
Benefits
Company
Heron Power
Heron Power is an energy technology startup that focuses on developing power electronics for the modern electrical grid.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$38MKey Investors
Capricorn Investment Group
2025-05-29Series A· $38M
Leadership Team
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Chris Tilton
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