Senior Radiation Effects Engineer Verified today
About the role
CesiumAstro develops communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and space platforms. We're seeking a Senior Radiation Effects Engineer to lead key aspects of our radiation hardness assurance program. Your work will span environment analysis, testing, risk management, and product roadmapping for high-volume LEO applications and beyond.
You will present engineering design review materials to customers and executives, and contribute to proposal writing. Excellent written and verbal communication is essential.
What you'll do
- 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 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 radiation tolerance best practices 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 customer requirements to shape product-level radiation roadmap
- Keep up with latest industry practices, standards, and requirements
- Help grow the radiation effects team via interviews, training, and mentorship
- Advise Business Development on radiation effects for bids and proposals
What you'll need
- Bachelor of Science or higher degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or similar discipline from an accredited university
- Minimum 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 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
Employment
Full-time position. CesiumAstro offers company stock options and benefits including health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability, and retirement plans.