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Employment type:
Full time
Experience required:
Intermediate
Salary
Salary not provided
About the company:
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.
What You Will Be Doing:
We are hiring a Lead Mechanical Engineer to own hardware designs for Helion’s fusion generator prototypes. You will solve diverse problems that have a massive impact on the performance of Helion’s generators while hiring and mentoring engineers and establishing design processes to increase Helion’s pace of innovation. You will report directly to our Senior Manager of Engineering at our Everett, WA office.
You Will:
You will set the standard for how fast Helion designs and builds hardware; ultimately delivering clean, low-cost, reliable electricity to the world. Your main responsibility will be creating a world-class engineering team, providing mentorship, modeling technical best practices, and continually raising the bar.
Grow and mentor a team of exceptional and multidisciplinary mechanical engineers
Oversee design of machine architecture, high-performance magnets, support structures
Supervise the design of fuel systems, thermal management systems, and vacuum systems
Drive schedule ownership and optimization by team members to accelerate milestones
Drive design, analysis, and manufacturing process improvements to increase throughput
Required Skills:
Bachelor's degree in engineering, with a minimum of 5 years of engineering experience and 2 years of project management experience
Demonstrated ability to grow engineers, engineering leaders, and meaningfully impact the career progression of direct reports
Experience in working with and leading (directly or indirectly) multidisciplinary teams
Experience managing complex engineering projects (including schedule ownership)
Hands-on exposure to a variety of engineering disciplines (mechanical, electrical, fluids)
Ability to apply both engineering first-principles and methodical thinking to challenging problems
The pay range for this position is $145-175k. This pay range may be inclusive of several career levels and will be narrowed based on several factors, including the candidate’s experience and qualifications.
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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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