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Our vision is a world with clean, reliable, and affordable energy for everyone.\nSince 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.\nThis 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.\nWhat You Will Be Doing:\nYou 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.\nYou Will:\nPlan and coordinate maintenance and upgrades on complex, tightly integrated, first-of-a-kind equipment\n\nTurn ambiguous requests from multiple teams into clear, executable work plans, making scheduling decisions and seeking feedback as needed\n\nManage equipment configuration, maintenance planning, work authorization, and handoffs that return equipment to operation\n\nIdentify conflicts, surface risks, and bring the right people into decisions\n\nAssess how proposed work affects configuration, access, operations, and other scheduled work\n\nRequired Skills:\nBachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field\n\n4+ years planning and coordinating maintenance, modifications, or upgrades in a complex operating facility, taking work from request through scope, readiness, scheduling, execution, and closeout\n\nHands-on experience in a shipyard, power plant, nuclear facility, large-scale experiment, or similar setting\n\nFamiliarity with high-voltage, vacuum, or pulsed power systems\n\nCMMS experience\n\nStrong first-principles and structured problem-solving skills\n\nWorking knowledge of LOTO, work permits, and MOC on equipment with significant stored energy\n\nExperience building or improving preventive maintenance plans and using equipment history to find reliability problems\n\nAbility to read technical drawings and work with engineers and technicians on installation, testing, and maintainability requirements\n\nExperience reviewing, approving, and scheduling work, resolving competing requests, and building consensus across teams\n\nPreferred Skills:\nFormal work control, work authorization, or configuration management experience\n\nExperience planning outages, commissioning, or integration tests on operating equipment\n\nExperience building a work planning or maintenance process that scales across facilities or devices\n\n#LI-Onsite #LI-TM1\nBenefits\nOur total compensation package includes benefits, including but not limited to:\nMedical, Dental, and Vision plans for employees and their families\n\n31 Days of PTO (21 vacation days and 10 sick days)\n\n10 Paid holidays, plus company-wide winter break\n\nUp to 5% employer 401(k) match\n\nShort term disability, long term disability, and life insurance\n\nPaid parental leave and support (up to 16 weeks)\n\nAnnual wellness stipend\n\nHelion is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. 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