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Scotts Valley, California, United States
Onsite
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 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.
Heron is hiring its first Sales Engineer. You'll work directly with the Sales team to turn customer needs into winning solutions built on the Heron Link, our MVAC-interface power electronics platform, which is typically paired with an energy storage solution. You'll help shape product concepts, design solutions for specific customer sites, and put together proposals. As the first hire in Sales Engineering, you'll help build the function and have plenty of room to grow with it.
Partner with Sales to qualify opportunities and define product concepts around customer needs
Act as the technical lead with customers on calls, site visits and design reviews
Develop site-specific designs covering system sizing, storage configuration, single-lines and layouts
Pull together technical proposals, pricing inputs and responses to RFPs and RFIs
Bring customer feedback to engineering and product so offerings keep improving
Build the tools, templates and processes the Sales Engineering team will scale on
We have a short list of must-have requirements. We prioritize a strong grip on first principles, hands-on skills, and a sense of initiative. Domain-specific knowledge and experience will help determine the career level for each hire.
Degree in engineering or a technical field; EE, power systems or power electronics preferred, ME or CS considered
1-3 years of hands-on work with energy products (EVs, ESS, power electronics or utility) in design, test, support, sales engineering or manufacturing
Working knowledge of AC power systems, including voltage levels, transformers and grid interconnection basics
Ability to explain technical tradeoffs clearly to both customers and engineers
Strong modeling and analysis skills, coding language and/or Excel
Comfort owning ambiguous problems in a fast-moving startup
Experience with MV equipment, BESS, or utility-scale solar or storage projects
Prior customer-facing technical role such as sales engineering, applications engineering or field support
Familiarity with interconnection processes, utility requirements, or standards like IEEE 1547 and IEEE 2800
Experience building proposals, system designs or single-line diagrams
Experience at a utility or with distribution system modeling
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 $120,000 to $150,000 per year.