Machine Maintenance and Integration Engineer

About Helion

We are a fusion power company based in Everett, WA, with the mission to build the world's first fusion power plant, enabling a future with unlimited clean electricity. Our vision is a world with clean, reliable, and affordable energy for everyone.

Since Helion's founding in 2013, we have raised $1.5 billion from long-time investors such as Sam Altman, Mithril, and Capricorn Investment Group as well as new investors including Thrive Capital, LightSpeed Venture Capital, SoftBank, and others to propel us forward. Our current prototype, Polaris, has reached record-breaking plasma temperatures of 150 million degrees Celsius (13 keV). Helion is continuing to iterate and on the path to the world's first fusion power plant, Orion.

This is a pivotal time to join Helion. You will tackle real-world challenges with a team that prizes urgency, rigor, ownership, and a commitment to delivering hard truths – values essential to achieving what no one has before. Together, we will change the future of energy, because the world can't wait.

What You Will Be Doing

You will own work control for Helion’s experimental and large-scale fusion machines, keeping them ready for operation. As a Machine Maintenance and Integration Engineer, you will play a critical role in maximizing machine availability in a highly demanding and changing experimental environment. You will coordinate maintenance, repairs, upgrades, and integration work, building clear work plans across teams and shifts while partnering with technician shift managers, operators, and engineers from across the organization.

Helion is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the interview process, please let us know.

Responsibilities

Plan and coordinate maintenance and upgrades on complex, tightly integrated, first-of-a-kind equipment; Turn ambiguous requests from multiple teams into clear, executable work plans, making scheduling decisions and seeking feedback as needed; Manage equipment configuration, maintenance planning, work authorization, and handoffs that return equipment to operation; Identify conflicts, surface risks, and bring the right people into decisions; Assess how proposed work affects configuration, access, operations, and other scheduled work

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field; 4+ years planning and coordinating maintenance, modifications, or upgrades in a complex operating facility, taking work from request through scope, readiness, scheduling, execution, and closeout; Hands-on experience in a shipyard, power plant, nuclear facility, large-scale experiment, or similar setting; Familiarity with high-voltage, vacuum, or pulsed power systems; CMMS experience; Strong first-principles and structured problem-solving skills; Working knowledge of LOTO, work permits, and MOC on equipment with significant stored energy; Experience building or improving preventive maintenance plans and using equipment history to find reliability problems; Ability to read technical drawings and work with engineers and technicians on installation, testing, and maintainability requirements; Experience reviewing, approving, and scheduling work, resolving competing requests, and building consensus across teams

Nice to have

Formal work control, work authorization, or configuration management experience; Experience planning outages, commissioning, or integration tests on operating equipment; Experience building a work planning or maintenance process that scales across facilities or devices

Benefits

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