# Power Electronics Engineer at Helion

- Company: Helion
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://helionenergy.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Everett, WA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $165K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-22
- Apply by: 2026-11-06
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/helion/4f0b0e62-cdd6-4f66-803b-c2d8ee3703c0
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/helion-power-electronics-engineer/

## About the role

For a power electronics engineer, that makes this a rare kind of role. You'll take designs from concept through bring-up, commissioning, and operation on a working fusion machine, owning real outcomes, not a narrow slice of someone else's system. Small teams and fast build-test-learn cycles mean your decisions reach hardware in weeks, not years.

## What they're looking for

- A degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience
- A solid grounding in power electronics fundamentals: switching topologies, semiconductor device selection (IGBTs, MOSFETs, thyristors/SCRs), gate drive, magnetics, thermal design, and loss analysis
- Proficiency with PCBA design (Altium, KiCad, or equivalent) and circuit simulation (SIMetrix, PLECS, LTspice, PSIM, or equivalent)
- Strong hands-on lab skills: bench bring-up, characterization, and debugging with oscilloscopes, DMMs, and related instrumentation
- Comfort working across the hardware–firmware boundary, familiarity with real-time interfaces such as EtherCAT and with FPGA or embedded monitoring is an asset
- High-voltage or pulsed-power experience is welcome but not required. We actively support strong power electronics engineers in growing into our high-voltage and pulsed-power work

Tags: Electrical Engineering