Intern, Compliance Engineering - Spring 2027

Department: Engineering

Location: Scotts Valley

Employment Type: FullTime

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 Compliance Engineering Intern, you will be the bridge between regulatory standards and innovative product design. You’ll identify and interpret compliance requirements, design, develop and execute tests to validate regulatory specifications, and ensure our products achieve certifications to 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

• Contribute to thought leadership through white papers, 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, computer engineering or equivalent

• Strong foundation in electrical engineering principles, power systems and power electronics

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

• Interpretation skill to digest requirements and convert to test specifications

• 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.

• Candidates must be available to work across summer and fall semesters.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in regulatory and compliance certification for solar, wind, battery or other power electronics products

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

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

• Knowledge of insulation materials, shielding techniques, and arc flash mitigation for high-voltage systems.

• Exposure to manufacturing processes and material selection for high-power assemblies (e.g., busbars, potting, conformal coating, HV connectors).

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

• Power systems modeling knowledge

• Cybersecurity and Functional Safety program awareness

• Experience interfacing with NRTLs

• Involved in Data Acceptance Programs

• Participated in the development of Laboratory Quality Management System Development

• Proactively manage business risk by monitoring evolving standards, engaging with AHJs and utilities, and participating in standards development.

• Working experience with UL, IEC, ISO standards

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.