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About SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the mission of enabling humans to become a multi-planetary species. It operates the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles, as well as the Starlink satellite internet constellation.
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Listed pay typically runs
$130,000–$165,000
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As a Radiation Effects Engineer on the Radiation team, you will ensure avionics hardware performance across various vehicles by performing exhaustive analysis, design, and testing at the component, board, unit, and subsystem levels. You will support cross-discipline teams by providing radiation test results, modeling reports, and mitigation recommendations while developing databases and applications to manage test data. Your daily work involves collaborating with supply chain, manufacturing, and software teams to refine components, establish procurement specifications, and improve test coverage for flight hardware. The role requires expertise in single event effects risk calculations, hardware blueprints, circuit functions, and avionics hardware such as integrated circuits and sensors. You will utilize Python, SQL, JavaScript, and HTML to develop tools and scripts while ensuring all systems comply with radiation regulatory requirements within harsh ionizing radiation environments.