Senior/Staff Grid Interoperability Compliance Engineer

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 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 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 a Senior/Staff Grid Interoperability Compliance Engineer, you will be the bridge between regulatory standards and innovative product design. You’ll identify and interpret all compliance hurdles, guide engineering teams through design decisions, and ensure our products achieve certifications and seamlessly enter global markets.

How You Will Contribute

• Research, interpret, and apply compliance requirements from IEEE, IEC, ISO, NERC, FERC, and other bodies to support product listings and new market entries.

• Partner with engineering leads 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, and participating in standards development.

• Contribute to thought leadership through white papers, participation in utility hearings, and regional codes and standards activities.

What You Will Bring

We have a short list of must-have requirements. We prioritize candidates with a strong grip on first principles, hands-on skills, and initiative.

Must-Have Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in electrical engineering or equivalent

• More than 5 years’ experience in regulatory and compliance certification for solar, wind, battery or other power electronics products

• Deep understanding and familiarity with relevant IEC/EN, IEEE, and ISO standards and how they inform the design and certification process of grid-connected power electronics systems

• Ability to thrive in ambiguity, relying on your first principles engineering experience to identify creative solutions to hard problems.

• Capability to remain engaged, proactive, and positive under pressure, owning assignments and taking full accountability

• Effective communicator and negotiator with excellent attention to detail.

• Hands on experience designing and operating test equipment and data acquisition systems, such as oscilloscopes, power analyzers, data loggers, etc.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience designing or testing medium-voltage systems (e.g., 5kV–35kV),

• Familiarity with grid-tied hardware such as medium-voltage converters, switchgear, circuit breakers, or protective relays.

• Experience designing and developing Controller Hardware In the Loop (CHIL) setup for grid interactive feature testing and regression

• Power systems modeling knowledge

• Development experience of cybersecurity and communication program for utility connected equipment

• Integrating functional safety requirements and procedures into Software and Firmware development processes

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

• Participation in product-relevant standards committees

• Working experience of UL1741, UL 2891, IEEE 1547, IEEE 1547.1, IEEE 1547.3, SRDs, IEEE 2800, IEEE 519, UL 1998, UL 5500, G99, EN 50549, VDE 4105.

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.