Senior Radiation Effects Engineer Verified today

About the Role

CesiumAstro develops communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms. We are seeking a Senior Radiation Effects Engineer to lead key aspects of our radiation hardness assurance program.

In this role, you will own the company's Radiation Hardness Assurance Plan for LEO orbits and beyond. Your technical work will span environment analysis, testing, risk management, and product roadmapping. You will present engineering design review materials to customers and the executive team, and participate in proposal-writing efforts.

Key Responsibilities

• Own key aspects of the company's Radiation Hardness Assurance Plan for LEO orbits and beyond.
• Simulate radiation environments for various orbits using tools such as OMERE.
• Plan and conduct radiation tests on components and CesiumAstro's products, including proton, heavy ion, and total dose testing.
• Predict upset rates by combining environmental simulations with test data.
• Advise hardware engineers on part selection.
• Advise software and firmware engineers on best practices for software radiation tolerance such as EDAC and watchdog timer.
• Perform system-level analysis of radiation risk.
• Participate in design reviews for hardware, software, and firmware to ensure radiation reliability.
• Digest requirements from potential customers to shape product-level radiation roadmap.
• Keep up with the latest industry practices, standards, and requirements.
• Help to grow the radiation effects team via interviews, training, and mentorship.
• Advise Business Development on radiation effects for bids and proposals.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science or higher degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or similar discipline from an accredited university.
• Minimum of 5 years of space product experience.
• Direct experience performing many or all of the responsibilities listed above.
• 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 of 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.

Employment Details

Full-time employment offers include company stock options and a generous benefits package including health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability and retirement plans.

To conform with United States Government Space Technology Export Regulations, applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., conditional resident, asylee or refugee, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.