Job Description
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 $1 billion from long-time investors such as Sam Altman, Mithril, and Capricorn Investment Group as well as new investors SoftBank and Lightspeed 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). We are now operating Polaris, our next prototype on the path to the world's first fusion power plant.
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.
What You Will Be Doing
You’ll grow and lead a team that bridges physics, electrical design, software engineering, and operations — creating a unified platform that allows fusion machines to operate efficiently, adapt to grid conditions, and evolve toward commercial reliability. You will report to the Senior Manager of Electrical Engineering and this is an onsite role located at our Everett, WA office.
You will:
- Build and lead a multidisciplinary team of software, firmware, and electrical engineers developing the full control stack for a fusion power plant — from embedded controllers to supervisory automation and data pipelines
- Own the plant-level control system — both the closed-loop control of critical subsystems (thermal management, grid interface, uptime management) and the supervisory coordination layer that orchestrates overall plant behavior
- Guide system design and implementation of hardware and software for reliable, real-time control, ensuring consistent plant performance during scheduled operations and dynamic grid events
- Coordinate cross-disciplinary development between hardware owners, data analysts, and operations teams to translate machine capability and experimental intent into robust, testable control logic
- Develop front-end control and visualization interfaces that support both rapid experimental iteration and long-term automated operation
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