Compliance Engineering

Heron Power is a startup company building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. Our first focus 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 over the past decade.

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.

As a Compliance Engineer, you will drive and manage the full product safety and compliance lifecycle across our product portfolio. This role is responsible for leading compliance strategy from early engagement in codes and standards development through certification, market launch, and ongoing sustaining improvements. You will lead the responsibility for identifying all regulatory and technical hurdles Heron's products must clear on the path to global market. Then, in collaboration with the design engineering team, will demonstrate Heron's products meet or exceed all requirements, achieve all certifications, and successfully enter target markets.

Research, interpret, and apply compliance from UL, IEC, IEEE, NEC, ISO, and other regulatory bodies to inform Heron's path to successful listing for each product and new market entry.

Partner with leads from engineering, product and manufacturing across the product lifecycle to embed compliance into product architecture and design, bringing first-principles-informed, can-do creativity.

Develop and execute compliance test plans, including identifying/building test infrastructure and resources.

Debug failures and drive design solutions in collaboration with engineering design teams

Establish and manage high-performance partnerships with NRTLs to achieve timely certification.

Define and maintain client test data acceptance programs with NRTLs to accelerate compliance program execution.

Proactively manage business risk by monitoring evolving standards, engaging with AHJs and utilities.

Represent the company in industry codes and standards development activities, proactively influencing emerging requirements and translating them into actionable product and engineering guidelines

Mentor and guide junior engineers while establishing best practices, tools, and scalable compliance processes.

Develop capital and operating expenses forecast for compliance operations

Develop infrastructure planning aligning with product roadmap

Domain-specific knowledge and experience will help determine the career level for each hire.

Master's degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering or equivalent

• 4+ years' experience in regulatory and compliance certification for solar, wind, battery or other power electronics products
• Deep understanding and familiarity with relevant UL/IEC/EN, IEEE, and ISO standards and how they inform the design and certification process of grid-connected power electronics systems
• Experience with manufacturing processes and material selection for high-power assemblies (e.g., busbars, potting, conformal coating, HV connectors).
• Experience developing DFMEA, PFMEA and HARA for complex hardware design and manufacturing environment
• Development experience of cybersecurity program for utility connected equipment
• Functional safety requirements and procedures integration into Software and Firmware development
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity, relying on your first principles engineering experience to identify creative solutions to hard problems.
• Hands on experience designing and operating test equipment and data acquisition systems, such as oscilloscopes, power and spectrum analyzers, data loggers, etc.

Experience designing or testing medium-voltage systems (e.g., 1.5kV-35kV), including insulation coordination, clearance/creepage, and partial discharge considerations.

Hands-on experience with test automation using Python, LabVIEW, or embedded scripting for power hardware validation.

Working experience of UL1741, UL 347a, IEC 62109-1, IEC 62109-2, IEC 62040, IEC 62477, UL 9540, UL 1998, UL 840, UL 2891, UL5500, IEEE 1547, IEEE 2800

Heron Power provides competitive compensation (salary and equity) and benefits.