Helion Energy
Senior Systems Engineer
Everett, WA · Senior
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About the role
- Our vision is a world with clean, reliable, and affordable energy for everyone.
- Our current prototype, Polaris, has reached record-breaking plasma temperatures of 150 million degrees Celsius (13 keV).
- Helion is continuing to iterate and on the path to the world's first fusion power plant, Orion.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in systems engineering, with demonstrated ownership of requirements, architecture, or interface definition on complex plant or hardware systems.
- Proven experience decomposing high-level plant or mission requirements into traceable, verifiable subsystem requirements.
- Proven experience authoring and owning ICDs across multiple engineering disciplines.
- Comfort working across electrical, mechanical, controls, science, business, and software domains without being deeply expert in all of them.
- Demonstrated ability to operate in fast-paced development environments requiring both engineering rigor and speed.
- Experience in aerospace, nuclear, energy systems, or other complex, safety-critical, first-of-kind hardware or plant programs.
- Experience with requirements management and PLM tooling (Jama, DOORS, Teamcenter, or similar).
- Experience with risk identification, tracking, and mitigation on complex engineering programs.
- Experience applying system safety and reliability methods, including FMEA, FMECA, or fault tree analysis.
Compensation
- Our total compensation package includes benefits, including but not limited to:
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision plans for employees and their families
- 31 Days of PTO (21 vacation days and 10 sick days)
- Short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance
- Paid parental leave and support (up to 16 weeks)
- Annual wellness stipend
- Our total compensation package includes benefits, including but not limited to:
- We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
- If you need assistance or an accommodation during the interview process, please let us know.
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