# R&D Manager - LabVIEW Controls Systems 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: Senior
- Location: Everett, WA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $162K to $192K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-01-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/helion/424e1bb6-efd4-4306-b659-ff4fea3eb7f2
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/helion-r-and-d-manager-labview-controls-systems/

## About the role

You will manage the control systems team in the R&D department. This team is responsible for delivering and maintaining control and data acquisition systems. These systems are used to control HV electrical test bays, control plasma technology development machines, control Production Manufacturing end-of-line testing, and control FRC plasma machines of varying sizes.

## What they're looking for

- Minimum 2+ years managing controls engineers in a scaling environment
- Experience developing control systems for large-scale, complex systems
- Demonstrated technical proficiency with LabVIEW and NI hardware in control system applications, including PXI, cRIO, RT, and FPGA
- Experience incorporating PLCs into LabVIEW and NI based control systems
- Experience incorporating text-based code (e.g. C, Matlab) into LabVIEW and NI based control systems
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Tags: Research & Development