Senior Mechanical Engineer, Modules
Location: Everett, WA | Employment Type: Full time | Location Type: On-site | Department: Mechanical Engineering
About the role
About Helion We are a fusion power company based in Everett, WA, with the mission to build the world's first fusion power plant, enabling a future with unlimited clean electricity. Our vision is a world with clean, reliable, and affordable energy for everyone. Since Helion's founding in 2013, we have raised $1.5 billion from long-time investors such as Sam Altman, Mithril, and Capricorn Investment Group as well as new investors including Thrive Capital, LightSpeed Venture Capital, SoftBank, and others to propel us forward. 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. This is a pivotal time to join Helion. You will tackle real-world challenges with a team that prizes urgency, rigor, ownership, and a commitment to delivering hard truths – values essential to achieving what no one has before. Together, we will change the future of energy, because the world can't wait.
Responsibilities
- Own hardware designs for Helion's fusion generator prototypes.
- Work with mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, manufacturing engineers, and production technicians to implement and troubleshoot high-voltage and low-voltage hardware architectures for pulsed power capacitor banks designed for production at scale.
- Solve multidisciplinary engineering problems necessary for deploying fusion energy to the world and act as a culture driver on a growing team.
- Own and understand subsystem designs such as electromagnetic, structural, fluid, thermal and control systems, and improve their requirements.
- Learn from historical engineering approaches, design novel hardware, and test your solutions.
- Optimize sub-system and component designs to scale for high volume manufacturing.
- Design fusion hardware within 3D CAD software (e.g. NX, Solidworks).