Senior Fusion Systems Engineer

Apply; Everett (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

PTO and holidays

401(k) match

Disability & life insurance

Parental leave

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Helion Energy in Everett, WA is seeking a Sr Systems Engineer to own the plant-wide system architecture and top-level requirements across the fusion power plant. You will decompose objectives into traceable subsystem requirements, drive major architecture decisions, and define interfaces with suppliers through ICDs.

You will lead technical reviews, verify against top-level requirements, and ensure alignment across electrical, mechanical, controls, science, and business teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of systems engineering experience with ownership of requirements, architecture, or interface definition on complex plant or hardware systems.
• Proven experience decomposing high-level requirements into traceable subsystem requirements.
• Proven experience authoring and owning ICDs across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Experience developing and executing verification and validation plans against system-level requirements.
• Strong technical writing and communication skills to influence design decisions across disciplines.
• Ability to drive consensus across cross-functional teams.
• Ability to operate across electrical, mechanical, controls, science, business, and software domains.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain Helion's top-level plant requirements with traceable decomposition to subsystems.
• Lead trade studies informing major plant architecture decisions with clear technical rationale.
• Develop and own Interface Control Documents (ICDs) for interfaces between plant subsystems and suppliers.
• Lead and facilitate design reviews at the plant level and surface risks early.
• Identify, assess, and track plant-level integration risks and drive mitigation.
• Drive configuration management and change control for plant requirements and baselines.
• Coordinate with electrical, mechanical, controls, test, science, and business teams to maintain alignment.
• Scale systems engineering processes to support production power plants.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements ownership

Architecture

Interface definition

Technical writing

Cross-functional collaboration

Influence without authority

Fast-paced environments

Problem solving

Multi-domain awareness

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Systems/EE/ME

Tools

Jama

DOORS

Teamcenter

Job description

Helion Energy in Everett, WA is seeking a Sr Systems Engineer to own the plant-wide system architecture and top-level requirements across the fusion power plant. You will decompose objectives into traceable subsystem requirements, drive major architecture decisions, and define interfaces with suppliers through ICDs.

You will lead technical reviews, verify against top-level requirements, and ensure alignment across electrical, mechanical, controls, science, and business teams.