Electrical Engineer

Job Description

Electrical Engineering Summer 2027 Intern | Helion

The Tone:
This is an internship at Helion, located in Everett, WA. Helion is a fusion power company building the world’s first fusion power plant to provide unlimited clean electricity. This role directly contributes to advancing fusion technology by designing, fabricating, and validating electronic systems, solving real-world engineering problems essential for deploying fusion energy globally.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person Everett, WA
• Pay: $59 hourly
• Mission: Design and fabricate analog and digital electronic circuits, develop data acquisition systems, and fix hardware to advance fusion technology for fusion power plants.
• Tech Stack: KiCAD, LT Spice, Altium

What You’ll Actually Do
• Perform: Perform qualification and testing plans on new or modified designs.
• Support: Support senior electrical engineers in design updates and documentation.
• Fix: Fix hardware issues as they arise on integrated fusion generators.
• Learn: Learn from historical engineering approaches, design novel hardware, and test your solutions.
• Apply: Apply both engineering first-principles and method-based thinking to challenging problems.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s degree program in Electrical Engineering or a related field with a GPA of 3.0 or above; Entry-Level.
• Experience: Worked with board layout and circuit simulation tools (e.g., KiCAD, LT Spice, Altium); Experience designing analog and digital circuits; Applied engineering principles such as making design trades and communicating progress and blockers.
• Skills: Ability to safely work with higher voltages (e.g., building AC or 1-10 KVDC power supplies), and familiarity with electric and magnetic fields.