Helion
Senior Electrical Engineer
$200K–$240K
Everett, WA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Dec 19, 2024
- Education
- Degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
About the job
Design, build, commission, and operate power electronics and pulsed-power systems for Helion’s fusion machines, from circuit design through hardware testing.
What you'll do
- Design low-voltage controls, monitoring, synchronization, and protection for pulsed-power circuits.
- Design, build, commission, and characterize high-voltage pulsed-power systems and components.
- Design power-conversion hardware, including converters, chargers, magnetics, and energy-recovery circuits.
What they ask for
- Degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
- Demonstrated experience designing and building power electronics or power-conversion hardware, including board bring-up, debugging, and testing.
- Grounding in power electronics fundamentals, including switching topologies, semiconductor devices, gate drive, magnetics, thermal design, and loss analysis.
- Proficiency with PCBA design and circuit simulation tools; strong hands-on lab skills.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with EtherCAT, FPGA, or embedded monitoring.
- High-voltage or pulsed-power experience is welcome but not required.
Pay
$200K – $240K (base salary; currency not stated)
Tools
EtherCAT, FPGA, Altium, KiCad, SIMetrix, PLECS, LTspice, PSIM
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