Senior Materials Health Monitoring Engineer

Helion; Everett (WA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision plans

PTO 31 days

Holidays and winter break

401(k) match

Disability and life insurance

Parental leave

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Helion in Everett, WA is seeking a Senior Materials Engineer to lead materials health monitoring for fusion generators. You will design, qualify, and deploy diagnostics to detect degradation under thermomechanical stress, radiation, and high electric fields, translating failure modes into measurable signals and integrating diagnostics into hardware and predictive models.

You will collaborate with design engineers to embed sensors into structural materials and work with modeling teams to inform

Qualifications

• BS with 10+ years, or MS/PhD with 5+ years in Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Applied Physics, Nuclear Engineering, or related field.
• Experience in materials diagnostics / NDE / SHM (strain, acoustic, optical, EM, fiberoptic, etc.).
• Familiarity with data analysis / feature extraction for degradation detection (Python preferred).
• Experience designing and executing coupled-stimuli experiments (thermomechanical, electrothermal, irradiation with stress).
• Experience embedding or integrating sensors into structural materials (ceramics, composites, polymers, or metals).

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy diagnostics for degradation and failure in fusion-relevant materials and components.
• Translate failure modes into measurable signals using sensors and inspection methods.
• Design and execute coupled-stimuli experiments and PIE to validate diagnostics.
• Own the materials diagnostics roadmap and align with system constraints.
• Collaborate with design engineers to embed diagnostics into hardware and ensure compatibility with constraints.
• Partner with modelling teams to integrate diagnostic outputs into predictive models.

Skills

Materials diagnostics / NDE / SHM

Data analysis in Python

Coupled-stimuli experiments

Sensor embedding into materials

Education

BS in Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, or related field

MS or PhD in related field

Job description

Helion in Everett, WA is seeking a Senior Materials Engineer to lead materials health monitoring for fusion generators. You will design, qualify, and deploy diagnostics to detect degradation under thermomechanical stress, radiation, and high electric fields, translating failure modes into measurable signals and integrating diagnostics into hardware and predictive models.

You will collaborate with design engineers to embed sensors into structural materials and work with modeling teams to inform