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Employment type:
Full time
Experience required:
Director
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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 over $600 million from investors such as Sam Altman, Mithril, and Capricorn Investment Group to propel us forward. Our last prototype, Trenta, completed 10,000 high-power pulses and reached plasma temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius (9 keV).
Now we are working toward Polaris, which will be the first machine to demonstrate electricity from fusion, making this a great time to join Helion! Bring your skills, experiences, and determination to make a difference in the world. Together, we can make a future with unlimited clean electricity from fusion a reality.
Helion is hiring a Director of Electrical Engineering to own electrical systems for Helion’s fusion generators. This position provides a unique opportunity to solve challenging multidisciplinary problems that are critical to deploying fusion energy to the world, while growing and mentoring a team of exceptional engineers and establishing design tools and processes to continually increase Helion’s pace of innovation.
What you’ll be doing
In this position, you will set the standard for how fast Helion designs and builds electrical systems and ultimately delivers clean, low-cost, and reliable electricity to the world. Your main responsibility will be creating a world-class engineering team and continually raising the bar for speed of execution and technical rigor. The role may expand based on interests and performance; initial responsibilities include –
About you
You have a bachelor’s degree in engineering, with a minimum of 10 years of engineering experience and 5 years of engineering management experience. You have taken multidisciplinary problems from concept to design, manufacture, test, and deployment. Some specific characteristics we are looking for –
Benefits and Compensation
Our total compensation package includes generous equity and benefits, including but not limited to:
NOTE: Underrepresented people are less likely to apply unless they meet 100% of the job's requirements. We believe in hiring people, not checklists, and encourage you to apply even if you do not check all of the boxes. If this job isn't the one, we have many other openings that may be a fit.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. If we reach out to you to begin an interview process, we will also ask if you require any reasonable accommodation at that time.
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