Electrical PCBA Test Automation Engineer — Equity

Heron Power Inc.; Scotts Valley (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary and equity

Job summary

Heron Power Inc. seeks an Electrical / Electronics Test Engineer - PCBA to build automated test infrastructure for validating and shipping at scale from PCBA-level tests to full production test systems.

You will own the lifecycle of test architecture, fixtures, and data pipelines, collaborating across design and manufacturing to enable reliable, repeatable high-volume testing of low-voltage electronics and high-power converter assemblies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in designing and delivering automated test setups for high-voltage / high-power systems.
• Strong fundamentals in circuits and instrumentation.
• Hands-on experience with scopes, DMMs, power supplies, electronic loads, DAQs, and digital interfaces (CAN, Ethernet, SPI, I2C, UART).
• Demonstrated ownership of a test system from concept through deployment and sustainment.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and drive issues to closure.

Responsibilities

• 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, HV measurement chains, interlocks and safe operating procedures.
• 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, harnesses and interface racks, 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.

Skills

Circuit fundamentals

Instrumentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Test system ownership

High-voltage test experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, or equivalent

Tools

Scopes

DMMs

Power supplies

Electronic loads

DAQs

CAN

Ethernet

SPI

I2C

UART

Job description

Heron Power Inc. seeks an Electrical / Electronics Test Engineer - PCBA to build automated test infrastructure for validating and shipping at scale from PCBA-level tests to full production test systems.

You will own the lifecycle of test architecture, fixtures, and data pipelines, collaborating across design and manufacturing to enable reliable, repeatable high-volume testing of low-voltage electronics and high-power converter assemblies.