Senior Design Engineer

Senior Design Engineer

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• Minimum of 8 years of electromechanical design experience
• Demonstrated success in cradle-to-grave ownership of electromechanical assemblies
• Hands-on engineering experience in a rapid prototyping and testing, highly iterative environment
• Hands-on engineering experience in scaling throughput or rate of a manufacturing line
• Ability to apply physics based first principles to challenge design requirements and assumptions
• Experience communicating with and influencing partners across organizational lines
• Exceptional communication and successful partnership with supply chain and production teams

Responsibilities

• Own capacitor design from requirement derivation, prototyping and testing, through to mass-manufacturing
• Work across technical teams to deeply understand how capacitors are used within our pulsed power circuits to optimize capacitor design requirements for Helion’s top-level generator goals
• Design, prototype, and test new capacitor designs to increase energy density, drive down cost, reduce electrical losses, improve manufacturability, and enable rapid manufacturing scaling
• Perform detailed capacitor design and qualification testing in support of near-term fusion generator builds, and owning resolution of capacitor anomalies during generator test operations
• Partner with our world class supply chain, manufacturing engineering, and production teams to scale Helion’s capacitor manufacturing from 10 MJ to 100,000 MJ per year in the next decade
• Enable high volume capacitor production via creative capacitor design and incorporation of mass manufacturing process
• Develop Helion’s long-term capacitor design strategy, including mitigating future vendor and supply chain risks, and incorporating emerging technologies to maintain Helion’s technological lead

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.