Senior Manager, Electrical Engineering

Overview

Lead development of high‑energy electrical systems and manage a top‑tier engineering team.

Key Responsibilities

• team leadership
• project ownership
• power circuits
• grid hardware
• mass production
• generator reliability

Tasks

-Create a world-class engineering team and continually raise the bar for speed of execution and technical rigor -Autonomous ownership of complex engineering projects (including schedule ownership) -Set the standard for how fast Helion designs and builds electrical systems and ultimately delivers clean, low-cost, and reliable electricity to the world -Manage the team’s end-to-end ownership of high-energy power circuits (kVDC, kVAC, kA, MJ) -Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve generator performance and reliability -Develop and maintain a roadmap to mass-production, optimizing for scalability and cost -Accelerate Helion’s development of custom grid tie-in hardware and/or implementation of highly efficient off-the-shelf components

Requirements

• 10+ years
• engineering mgmt
• bachelor's
• electrical
• leadership
• multidisciplinary

What You Bring

-Experience in taking multidisciplinary problems from concept to design, manufacturing, test, and deployment -Success scaling complex systems while reducing design iteration time with a lean team -Minimum of 10+ years of engineering experience and 3+ years of engineering management experience -Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related discipline -Hands-on exposure to a variety of electrical disciplines -Ability to apply engineering first-principles and analytical rigor to challenging problems -Exceptional leadership of engineers with a wide range of experiences and backgrounds

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Benefits

-Paid parental leave and support (up to 16 weeks) -10 Paid holidays, plus company-wide winter break -Up to 5% employer 401(k) match -Medical, Dental, and Vision plans for employees and their families -Annual wellness stipend -31 Days of PTO (21 vacation days and 10 sick days) -Short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance

About Helion

-Pursues a bold vision: taming the power of stars on Earth through fusion energy. -Develops magneto-inertial fusion technology, merging plasma at extreme speeds and capturing energy directly. -Pioneers in aneutronic fusion, recycling byproducts to generate helium-3, a sustainable fuel source. -Shifts from lab-scale to industrial-scale fusion with the Polaris device, supported by legal agreements. -Aims for rapid iteration with reactor designs capable of one pulse per second, enabling modular fusion systems.

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