Senior Space & Radiation Effects Engineer

Amazon Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $159,200–$215,300 / yr
Posted: 32 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Amazon Inc. is the world''s largest e-commerce and cloud computing company, operating the Amazon marketplace, AWS cloud platform, Prime subscription services, Alexa voice AI, and logistics infrastructure. Industry: E-Commerce & Cloud Computing

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TL;DR · Senior Space & Radiation Effects Engineer

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Senior Space & Radiation Effects Engineer, Amazon Leo joins a small team focused on ensuring avionics and payload hardware performance across a low Earth orbit satellite constellation. This role involves performing analysis, design guidance, and testing at the component, board, unit, and subsystem levels to ensure radiation reliability. Key responsibilities include collecting and analyzing TID, heavy ion, and proton testing data; qualifying microcontrollers, memory devices, FPGAs, and power management hardware; leading root-cause analysis of on-orbit events; and developing reporting standards for flight PCBA tests. The role requires expertise in radiation environment modeling tools like IRENE, OMERE, or SPENVIS, as well as transport codes such as GEANT4 or MCNP. Candidates may also utilize Python, LabView, S3, and DynamoDB to manage data while addressing the technical challenges of space radiation effects on electronic systems.

Skills

TID SEE Proton Testing FPGAs Microcontrollers PCBA Python LabView AWS S3 DynamoDB IRENE OMERE SIRE2 SPENVIS OLTARIS CREME96 SAPPHIRE ESP PSYCHIC NOVICE FASTRAD SHIELDOSE2 GEANT4 MCNP

What you'll do

Analyze TID, heavy ion, and proton testing data to qualify components against space radiation.
Determine the system-level impact of radiation-induced failures on satellite hardware.
Qualify a wide range of electronic components including microcontrollers, memory devices, FPGAs, and power management systems.
Provide guidance to electrical design engineers on selecting and utilizing radiation-sensitive components.
Lead root-cause analysis of on-orbit radiation events and develop visualization dashboards for these events.
Establish testing and reporting standards for component and flight PCBA radiation tests.
Manage hardware test results, documentation, and the tracking of PCN changes to maintain qualification status.

What we're looking for

Must be a U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, or granted asylum/refugee status for export control compliance.
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience in the electrical engineering field.
3+ years of experience in spaceflight avionics development, parts selection, and radiation testing.
3+ years of system design and component qualification experience with radiation environments and tolerant hardware.
Demonstrated understanding of the impact of SEE and TID effects on electronic systems.
Experience with at least one standard radiation environment modeling tool such as IRENE, OMERE, or SPENVIS.
Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field (preferred).
Experience with radiation transport codes, NASA/Defense programs, and proficiency in Python, LabView, or AWS tools (preferred).