1 month ago
Everett, WA, USASenior
Base Salary
$240k - $255k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain software for plant control, diagnostics, automation, and operator workflows.
- Own interfaces connecting distributed sensors, actuators, controllers, databases, and visualization tools.
- Build monitoring and diagnostic tools for machine health, system performance, test execution, and plant operations.
- Create and improve graphical user interfaces for engineers, operators, and scientists.
- Architect and implement software supporting real-time control, data acquisition, and system coordination.
- Integrate software with complex hardware systems in collaboration with electrical, firmware, mechanical, IT, operations, and science teams.
- Improve the reliability, usability, and scalability of internal control and diagnostic platforms.
- Investigate and introduce tools, frameworks, and infrastructure that accelerate engineering development.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience.
- End-to-end ownership experience on complex software projects.
- Strong programming ability in C++, Rust, or a similar systems programming language.
- Experience with Python or another high-level orchestration language.
- Experience building software that interfaces with hardware, sensors, instruments, control systems, or other real-world systems.
- Comfort working in Linux environments.
- Experience designing maintainable software systems, including testing, version control, debugging, and deployment practices.
- Ability to work across the full software lifecycle from requirements gathering and prototyping through production support.
- Strong systems-level problem-solving skills, including debugging across software, hardware, networks, and data flows.
- Ability to collaborate with engineers and scientists from multiple disciplines.
- Experience with distributed control systems, industrial automation, SCADA, PLCs, machine control, precision timing, synchronization, PTP, deterministic systems, embedded Linux, real-time systems, time-series databases, data pipelines, visualization tools, operator interfaces, engineering tools, dashboards, or data-rich GUIs is desired.
- Experience with Docker, configuration management, deployment automation, or work in high-energy systems, aerospace, robotics, manufacturing, power systems, scientific instrumentation, or complex hardware environments is desired.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their families.
- 31 days of PTO, including 21 vacation days and 10 sick days.
- 10 paid holidays plus a 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 of up to 16 weeks.
- Annual wellness stipend.
- Onsite position at the Everett, Washington office.
About Helion
Helion develops pulsed fusion power systems to produce grid-scale electricity, targeting utilities, data centers, and industrial power buyers. The privately held company, founded in 2013 and headquartered in Everett, Washington, builds and tests prototype fusion generators (e.g., Trenta and Polaris) on a path to commercial plants. Its business model centers on selling electricity through power purchase agreements and deploying fusion generators, including a publicly announced agreement to supply Microsoft with fusion power.