Helion Energy

Senior Manager, Electrical Engineering

Helion Energy$120K — $160K *
Energy & Utilities
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field
  • 10+ years of engineering experience, with 3+ years in management
  • Expertise in transforming multidisciplinary problems from concept to deployment
  • Proven ownership of complex engineering projects
  • Exceptional leadership skills across diverse engineering teams
  • Hands-on experience in various electrical engineering disciplines
  • Strong analytical skills with a focus on engineering first principles and execution

Responsibilities

  • Set fast-paced standards for electrical system design and delivery
  • Build and mentor a world-class engineering team
  • Oversee end-to-end management of high-energy power circuits
  • Accelerate development of custom hardware and efficient component integration
  • Collaborate with other teams to boost generator performance and reliability
  • Create and manage a roadmap for mass production, emphasizing scalability and cost

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees and families
  • 31 days of PTO (including vacation and sick days)
  • 10 paid holidays plus a company-wide winter break
  • Up to 5% employer 401(k) match
  • Short-term and long-term disability and life insurance
  • Paid parental leave and support (up to 16 weeks)
  • Annual wellness stipend
Full Job Description
What You Will Be Doing:

As a Senior Manager of Electrical Engineering, you will lead the development of novel circuit designs and hardware systems for Helion's fusion devices. Your primary responsibility will be to grow and lead a high-performing electrical engineering team by providing mentorship, modeling technical excellence, and driving execution speed. You will solve complex engineering challenges that directly impact machine performance and help deliver clean, low-cost, reliable electricity to the world. This is an onsite role that reports directly to Senior Manager of Electrical Engineering at our Everett, WA office.

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
  • Create a world-class engineering team and continually raise the bar for speed of execution and technical rigor
  • Manage the team's end-to-end ownership of high-energy power circuits (kVDC, kVAC, kA, MJ)
  • Accelerate Helion's development of custom grid tie-in hardware and/or implementation of highly efficient off-the-shelf components
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve generator performance and reliability
  • Develop and maintain a roadmap to mass-production, optimizing for scalability and cost

Required skills:
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related discipline
  • Minimum of 10+ years of engineering experience and 3+ years of engineering management experience
  • Experience in taking multidisciplinary problems from concept to design, manufacturing, test, and deployment
  • Autonomous ownership of complex engineering projects (including schedule ownership)
  • Exceptional leadership of engineers with a wide range of experiences and backgrounds
  • Hands-on exposure to a variety of electrical disciplines
  • Ability to apply engineering first-principles and analytical rigor to challenging problems
  • Success scaling complex systems while reducing design iteration time with a lean team

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Benefits

Our total compensation package includes benefits, including but not limited to:
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision plans for employees and their families
  • 31 Days of PTO (21 vacation days and 10 sick days)
  • 10 Paid holidays, plus company-wide winter break
  • Up to 5% employer 401(k) match
  • Short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance
  • Paid parental leave and support (up to 16 weeks)
  • Annual wellness stipend

About Helion Energy

Helion Energy, Inc. is an American fusion research company, located in Everett, Washington. They are developing a magneto-inertial fusion technology to produce helium-3 and fusion power via aneutronic fusion.
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