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Director of Engineering, Modules

Helion · Everett, WA · On-site

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About Helion

Helion is building the world's first fusion power plant to deliver clean, reliable, and abundant electricity to the grid. Backed by Lightspeed, Peak XV and SoftBank VF.

About the role

The capacitor bank is the beating heart of a Helion machine: it stores the energy for every fusion pulse, delivers it in under a millisecond, and takes it back. You will own the organization that architects, designs, qualifies, and produces hardware for Orion, our first fusion power plant.

More about this role

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 $1.5 billion from long-time investors such as Sam Altman, Mithril, and Capricorn Investment Group as well as new investors including Thrive Capital, LightSpeed Venture Capital, SoftBank, and others to propel us forward. Our current prototype, Polaris, has reached record-breaking plasma temperatures of 150 million degrees Celsius (13 keV). Helion is continuing to iterate and on the path to the world's first fusion power plant, Orion.

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.

The capacitor bank is the beating heart of a Helion machine: it stores the energy for every fusion pulse, delivers it in under a millisecond, and takes it back....

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