Helion
Senior Power Electronics Engineer
$200K–$240K
Everett, WA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Dec 19, 2024
- Experience
- No specific number of years stated.
- 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 machine, spanning controls, high-voltage switching, and power conversion.
What you'll do
- Design and test control, monitoring, synchronization, and protection electronics for pulsed-power circuits.
- Build, commission, and characterize high-voltage pulsed-power systems, including capacitor banks, switches, triggering, and protection.
- Design power-conversion hardware, including converters, chargers, magnetics, thermal paths, 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 through schematic, board bring-up, debugging, and testing.
- Grounding in power electronics fundamentals, including switching topologies, semiconductor selection, gate drive, magnetics, thermal design, and loss analysis.
- Proficiency with PCBA design and circuit simulation tools, plus hands-on lab skills in bring-up, characterization, and debugging.
Nice to have
- High-voltage or pulsed-power experience is welcome but not required.
- Familiarity with EtherCAT, FPGA, or embedded monitoring is an asset.
Pay
$200K – $240K (currency and whether base salary or total pay not stated)
Tools
EtherCAT, FPGA, Altium, KiCad, SIMetrix, PLECS, LTspice, PSIM
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