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 do:
As a Senior Equipment Safety Engineer at Helion, you will play a critical role in ensuring the safety, compliance, and operational readiness of our rapidly scaling manufacturing and R&D environments. You'll collaborate across engineering, operations, and safety teams to ensure new and modified equipment meets rigorous design, regulatory, and performance standards. As the Senior Equipment Safety Engineer you will also help stand up our equipment safety sign off process and support manufacturing process design. This is an onsite role that reports to the Senior EHS Manager at our Everett, WA office.
You Will:
- Conduct Risk Assessments for new and modified equipment in accordance with ISO 12100 and ANSI B11 standards
- Create and stand up our equipment safety sign off process and support manufacturing process design
- Partner with engineering, operations, and vendor teams to review and approve equipment designs, ensuring safe integration and lifecycle performance
- Develop and maintain equipment safety standards, SOPs, and training programs to support safe operations
- Manage regulatory compliance and documentation, including CE marking, UL/NRTL certification, and coordination with third-party testing agencies.
- Support control system safety integration for new machinery, including safety PLCs, interlocks, and emergency stop systems
- Advise cros
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