Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Helion, Everett, WA

What you will do

Own the plant software stack across embedded, supervisory, networking, infrastructure, and data layers, and the enterprise data platform and application roadmap. Software ships against hardware on a shared schedule; the data platform ships against a machine that will run many pulses a day. You own the plan, the risks, and the result.
Our processes, review gates, and planning norms were designed for hardware. You will set how software plans, reviews, tests, deploys, responds to faults, and hands off to operations, fitted to a first-of-a-kind plant rather than imported from a previous employer: light enough to move at our pace, rigorous enough that the machine is safe to run.
Electrical, mechanical, systems, fuel cycle, operations, and science teams all depend on software and have their own expectations of it. You will set and hold clear expectations for how those groups engage the software teams, how priorities are negotiated, and how a shared-service team says no, without formal authority over any of them.

Helion, Everett, WA

$250K–$290K

a year

This base pay is above the median for senior software engineering jobs in other US places.

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Own the plant software stack across embedded, supervisory, networking, infrastructure, and data layers, and the enterprise data platform and application roadmap. Software ships against hardware on a shared schedule; the data platform ships against a machine that will run many pulses a day. You own the plan, the risks, and the result.
Our processes, review gates, and planning norms were designed for hardware. You will set how software plans, reviews, tests, deploys, responds to faults, and hands off to operations, fitted to a first-of-a-kind plant rather than imported from a previous employer: light enough to move at our pace, rigorous enough that the machine is safe to run.
Electrical, mechanical, systems, fuel cycle, operations, and science teams all depend on software and have their own expectations of it. You will set and hold clear expectations for how those groups engage the software teams, how priorities are negotiated, and how a shared-service team says no, without formal authority over any of them.