Helion Energy

Senior Mechanical Engineer, Modules

Helion Energy • $120K — $145K *
Energy & Utilities
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering
  • 8+ years of professional experience in full-scope engineering projects
  • Familiarity with engineering first-principles and method-based thinking
  • Hands-on experience across mechanical, electrical, and fluids engineering disciplines
  • Proficient in designing and launching production hardware
  • Advanced skills in CAD software, e.g., NX or Solidworks
  • Moderate knowledge of GD&T and ASME Y14.5 standards
  • Experience with FEA software, e.g., ANSYS or FEMAP

Responsibilities

  • Own and enhance subsystem designs across various engineering domains
  • Research historical practices to innovate hardware designs
  • Optimize hardware designs for high-volume manufacturing
  • Create fusion hardware models with 3D CAD software
  • Analyze designs using tools like ANSYS and conduct iterative design reviews
  • Collaborate with experts to expand technical skills and knowledge
  • Work directly with technicians to realize hardware designs
  • Troubleshoot and resolve hardware issues on fusion generators

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision plans for employees and families
  • 31 Days of PTO (21 vacation days and 10 sick days)
  • 10 Paid holidays plus a company-wide winter break
  • Up to 5% employer 401(k) match
  • Short and long-term disability and life insurance
  • Paid parental leave up to 16 weeks
  • Annual wellness stipend
Full Job Description
What You Will Be Doing:

You will own hardware designs for Helion's fusion generator prototypes. You will be working with mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, manufacturing engineers, and production technicians, to implement and troubleshoot high-voltage and low-voltage hardware architectures for pulsed power capacitor banks that are designed for production at scale. You will solve multidisciplinary engineering problems that are necessary for deploying fusion energy to the world and act as a culture driver on a growing team. This role is onsite at our headquarters in Everett, WA.

You Will:
  • Own and understand subsystem designs such as electromagnetic, structural, fluid, thermal and control systems, and improve their requirements
  • Learn from historical engineering approaches, design novel hardware, and test your solutions
  • Optimize sub-system and component designs to scale for high volume manufacturing
  • Design fusion hardware within 3D CAD software (e.g. NX, Solidworks)
  • Perform analysis with tools like ANSYS and COMSOL Multiphysics, and hold design reviews to gather feedback and iterate to a fully functioning system

Required Skills:
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering
  • 7+ years of professional experience delivering on full-scope engineering projects (including schedule ownership)
  • Experience applying engineering first-principles and method-based thinking to challenging problems
  • Hands-on exposure to a variety of engineering disciplines (mechanical, electrical, fluids, thermal)
  • Experience designing, testing, and launching production hardware at scale
  • Moderate understanding of engineering physics fundamentals (mechanics of materials, circuits), and the ability to apply those principles to the design of high-voltage and pulsed power hardware
  • Advanced experience with CAD software (e.g. NX, Solidworks)
  • Moderate experience with GD&T and generating engineering drawings per ASME Y14.5
  • Moderate experience with FEA software (e.g. ANSYS, FEMAP, COMSOL)

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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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