Power Electronics Controls Engineer

Heron Power
Scotts Valley, CA
Category Engineering
Job Description
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.

Requirements

  • Dynamic modeling, controller design, implementation, and validation for power converters
  • System analysis and integration
  • Failure-mode & effects analysis (FMEA) to discover design weaknesses and devise mitigation strategies
  • Translation of system-level requirements to dynamic performance and controls specs
  • Design and validation of controller architecture to achieve design and dynamic objectives
  • Study and analysis of compliance requirements for grid-codes and protection schemes
  • Translation of algorithms from Simulink into embedded code (in C language)
  • Creation and utilization of hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) setups for validation
  • Work with hardware team to perform prototype bring-up and validation
  • Design and support special behaviors required for thermal, reliability, and compliance tests
  • Design and support special behaviors required for end-of-line testing for volume production
  • Review and analysis of fleet data, and devise performance improvement and failure mitigation strategies

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation (salary and equity)
  • Benefits
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