Spacecraft Electrical Engineer - Radiation Effects Verified today
About the Role
You will be responsible for characterizing, simulating, and mitigating radiation environmental effects on Firefly spacecraft. You will be involved in all phases of spacecraft and hardware development, defining the radiation environment and running multi-disciplinary test campaigns to qualify COTS parts for spaceflight.
What You Will Do
- Define radiation environment for missions
- Work alongside the hardware design team in parts selection and derating
- Organize and run test campaigns for Proton, Heavy Ion, and TID
- Calculate mission probability of success based on test results
- Work with stakeholders to manage programmatic risk
Required Qualifications
- BS degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics); in lieu of a degree, an additional 4 years of direct experience can be considered
- 3 years minimum experience with design, analysis, and/or testing of radiation effects on electronics and materials
- Knowledge of fundamental statistical methods and probability calculations
- Familiarity with discrete and integrated circuits (transistors, logic, memory, microcontrollers, FPGAs)
- Experience with industry-standard radiation effects analyses and testing (environment definition, SEECA, TID, DDD)
- Ability to read electrical schematics and design basic PCBs for testing purposes
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Altium Designer
- Experience with Atlassian tools such as Jira/Confluence and Agile methodology
- Experience with radiation simulation tools such as FASTRAD, SPENVIS