Heron Power is a startup company building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. We aim to de-bottleneck the growth of electricity generation and consumption with scalable, innovative, and less costly hardware solutions, accelerating the electrification of everything. As the Manufacturing Test Engineer - PCBA, you will build the automated hardware test infrastructure that allows us to validate and ship at scale.
Requirements
- Test Strategy & Architecture (PCBA → System → EOL)
- Define functional test coverage for PCBAs, subsystems, and full systems.
- Architect test solutions balancing coverage, cycle time, cost, and maintainability.
- Partner with design engineering to drive Design-for-Test (DFT): test points, boundary scan, firmware testing, and observability.
- Define regression strategy to prevent re-learning the same lessons across builds and firmware releases.
- Establish pass/fail criteria grounded in real system performance and reliability goals.
- Design and deliver automated bi-directional converter testers for AC/DC and DC/DC systems capable of source and sink operation.
- Architect high-power test cells including bidirectional AC/DC sources, regenerative loads, grid simulators (as needed), HV measurement chains, contactors and protection systems, interlocks and safe operating procedures, grounding strategy.
- Implement automated test sequences for power cycling, efficiency mapping, transient response, fault injection, protection validation.
- Ensure high-voltage testing is safe, repeatable, and production-ready.
- Design and build PCBA functional fixtures (bed-of-nails, pogo, interface boards), harness and connector validation fixtures, subsystem and system-level interface racks, and fault-injection rigs.
- Specify and integrate instrumentation including power supplies, electronic loads, DAQs, DMMs, oscilloscopes, power analyzers, CAN/Ethernet/RS-485 tools, and sensors.
- Deliver stations that are robust, safe, maintainable, and scalable.
- Drive rapid debug loops when tests fail.
- Improve test observability and diagnostic resolution.
- Own station version control, calibration, uptime, and software releases.
- Partner with manufacturing to improve yield, reduce escapes, and accelerate learning loops.
- Close the loop with design and reliability teams.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation (salary and equity)
- Benefits
