Senior Radiation Effects Engineer

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WAHawthorne, CA
Salary: $140,000–$235,000 / yr
Posted: 48 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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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TL;DR · Senior Radiation Effects Engineer

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As a Sr. Radiation Effects Engineer on the Radiation Effects 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 PCBA boards. The role requires expertise in single event effects risk calculations, hardware blueprints, and circuit functions. Technical skills include Python, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, and writing scripts to control test hardware. You will solve the critical challenge of maintaining hardware reliability within harsh ionizing radiation environments for space exploration missions.

Skills

Python SQL JavaScript HTML Circuit Design PCBA Avionics Mathematics Statistics Component Reliability

What you'll do

Provide radiation test results, analysis reports, and mitigation recommendations to design and system engineers.
Develop component databases and applications to manage radiation test data across multiple programs.
Collaborate with supply chain teams to ensure radiation test data is accessible and usable by designers.
Review PCN changes to maintain the radiation qualification status of components.
Establish testing and reporting standards for component and flight PCBA radiation tests.
Work with manufacturing and software teams to analyze and improve test coverage.
Define requirements for component procurement specifications based on radiation performance.
Ensure all operations comply with radiation regulatory safety requirements.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
5+ years of professional experience in the radiation effects field.
Must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or eligible for required export control authorizations.
Experience with full stack web development including Python, SQL, JavaScript, and HTML (preferred).
Experience with single event effects risk calculations (preferred).
Previous work experience in radiation effects including modeling, testing, and/or analysis (preferred).
Proficiency with hardware blueprints, schematics, circuit functions, and avionics hardware (preferred).
Experience in component engineering or reliability, script writing for test hardware, and radiation dose safety training (preferred).