# Senior Materials Engineer, Material Health Monitoring 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: $164K to $236K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/helion/eb5a8219-5064-4180-ae1e-23bae19abef8
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/helion-senior-materials-engineer-material-health-monitoring/

## About the role

We are looking for a Senior Materials Engineer to lead the development of materials health monitoring for Helion’s fusion generators. You will design, qualify, and deploy in-situ and ex-situ diagnostics to detect and quantify materials degradation under combined stimuli, including thermomechanical stress, radiation, high electric fields, and coolant environments.

## What they're looking for

- BS with 10+ years, or MS/PhD with 5+ years, in Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Applied Physics, Nuclear Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years (with PhD or MS) or 10+ years (with BS) of experience in at least one of:
- Materials diagnostics / NDE / SHM (strain, acoustic, optical, EM, fiberoptic, etc.)
- Familiarity with data analysis / feature extraction for degradation detection (Python preferred)
- Experience designing and executing coupled-stimuli experiments (e.g., thermomechanical, electrothermal, irradiation with stress)
- Experience embedding or integrating sensors into structural materials (ceramics, composites, polymers, or metals)

Tags: Material Science