Radiation Effects Engineer I Verified today
About the role
CesiumAstro develops communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms. We are seeking a Radiation Effects Engineer I to support the analysis, characterization, and verification of radiation effects impacting electronic components and systems for products and platforms.
In this position, you will contribute to product development by supporting radiation effects analyses, assisting with testing activities, and evaluating radiation susceptibility to help ensure products satisfy technical, reliability, and mission requirements for space environments.
What you will do
- Support radiation effects analyses for electronic components, integrated circuits, and electrical subsystems.
- Perform radiation assessments, component evaluations, shielding analyses, and worst-case analyses to support radiation-tolerant hardware designs.
- Review radiation environments, component specifications, engineering data, and technical documentation.
- Support radiation testing, characterization, data collection, and design validation activities.
- Analyze total ionizing dose (TID), single event effects (SEE), displacement damage, laboratory measurements, and engineering data while documenting findings.
- Assist with design verification, root cause investigations, engineering changes, and qualification activities.
- Prepare radiation analyses, technical reports, test procedures, qualification documentation, and design review materials.
- Support design reviews, technical discussions, hardware integration, and engineering investigations throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Maintain radiation analysis documentation, test results, qualification records, and configuration-controlled technical data.
- Apply engineering standards, radiation analysis practices, company procedures, and customer requirements.
- Recommend improvements that enhance radiation tolerance, product reliability, and design quality.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with electrical, hardware, FPGA, systems, software, mechanical, manufacturing, integration and test, quality, and program teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, physics, nuclear engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related engineering field.
- 0-2 years of related experience.
- Direct experience performing radiation effects engineering responsibilities.
- Direct experience working with automotive and high volume commercial grade parts in radiation environments.
- Good understanding of the radiation physics relevant to electronic components.
- Excellent written and spoken communication ability.
Preferred experience
- Experience with ray tracing tools such as FASTRAD.
- Experience with radiation susceptibility of RF components including III-V transistors (GaAs, GaN).
- Specialization in SEE analysis and test of complex digital devices such as FPGAs, processors, and memories (RAM and NVM).
- Working knowledge of electronic circuit theory.
- Basic programming and scripting, such as Python.
- Managing databases of component test data.
Compensation and benefits
Full-time employment offers include company stock options and a generous benefits package including health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability and retirement plans.
Note
To conform with United States Government Space Technology Export Regulations, the applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., conditional resident, asylee or refugee, or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.