Electrical Engineer, Low Voltage
Helion Energy
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Posted:
August 30, 2023
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Onsite
About the position
This job is for an Electrical Engineer at Helion, a fusion power company based in Everett, WA. The company's mission is to build the world's first fusion power plant and provide unlimited clean electricity. The Electrical Engineer will be responsible for designing and fabricating analog and digital electronic circuits, developing data acquisition capabilities, and creating electronic instruments. They will work closely with the Electrical Engineering Manager and collaborate with a team of engineers, scientists, and technicians. The ideal candidate should have a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field, at least 3 years of experience with PCBAs, and expertise in power electronics and circuit design.
Responsibilities
- Design and fabricate analog and digital electronic circuits, including op-amp, passive and active filter circuits, and PCB design and installation
- Develop next-generation in-house data acquisition capabilities and electronic instruments
- Learn from historical engineering approaches, design novel hardware, and test solutions
- Have end-to-end ownership over product design from requirements capture through design process
- Perform qualification and testing plans on new or modified designs
- Improve upon legacy designs to promote better scaling and documentation
- Apply engineering first-principles and method-based thinking to challenging problems
- Develop new diagnostic and health-check systems for large-scale pulsed power infrastructure
- Work and learn hands-on, alongside mentors and seasoned vets in fusion research and pulsed HV power, and experienced technicians
- Fix hardware issues as they arise on integrated fusion generators
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related field, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of experience with PCBAs through their life cycle for power electronics, high speed embedded systems, analog sensing, or high reliability circuits
- Comfortable with different circuit layout and simulation tools
- Experience designing power electronics, and analog and digital circuits, in high-noise environments
- Experience with communication protocols
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related field, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of experience with PCBAs through their life cycle (requirements gathering, circuit design, and layout to manufacturing, test, and support) for power electronics, high speed embedded systems, analog sensing, or high reliability circuits
- Comfortable with different circuit layout and simulation tools (e.g. KiCAD, LT Spice, SIMPLIS, Altium)
- Experience designing power electronics, and analog and digital circuits, in high-noise environments
- Experience with communication protocols (industrial eth)
Benefits
- 13 company-wide holidays
- 31 days of PTO (10 sick and 21 vacation days)
- 3% employer 401K contribution matching
- Equity plan offered to all employees
- Parental Leave
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Short- and long-term Disability
- Monthly sponsored events and subsidized snack program