Electrical Engineer, Radiation Effects Verified today
Electrical Engineer, Radiation Effects
As a member of SpaceX's Radiation Effects team, you will ensure avionics hardware performance across our fleet of vehicles (Dragon, Falcon, Starship, Lunar Human Landing System) through some of the harshest and varied radiation environments. You will perform exhaustive analysis, design, and test at the component, board, unit, and subsystem levels, interacting with a vast array of rocket and spacecraft hardware and electronics.
The Radiation team interfaces with design, manufacturing, integration, and mission operations teams, playing a critical role in system development and our efforts towards broadband satellite internet and safe, reliable, inexpensive access to space.
Responsibilities
- Support cross-discipline design and system engineers with radiation test and analysis results, requirements flow down, modeling reports, and mitigation recommendations
- Develop component databases and applications for interfacing with radiation test data across programs
- Work with supply chain, component reliability, and radiation engineering to ensure test data is available to design engineers
- Review PCN changes to ensure maintenance of radiation qualification status
- Develop testing and reporting standards for component and flight PCBA radiation tests
- Refine preferred components across programs with supply chain and component reliability teams
- Analyze and improve test coverage with circuit design, electronics manufacturing, and software teams
- Make recommendations for design and process improvements
- Establish requirements for component procurement specifications
- Comply with all radiation regulatory requirements for radiation safety
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical, materials, physics, or other engineering discipline
- 1 or more years of professional experience in the radiation effects field (internships and project experience applicable)
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Full stack web development including Python, SQL, JavaScript, HTML
- Single event effects risk calculations
- Previous work in radiation effects including modeling, testing, and/or analysis
- Writing scripts to control test hardware
- Hardware blueprints/schematics and circuit functions based on designs
- Component engineering and/or component reliability experience
- Strong mathematics and statistics knowledge
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Avionics hardware proficiency spanning integrated circuits, PCBA boards, sensors/transducers, functional troubleshooting, and defect detection
- Radiation dose safety training
Additional Requirements
- Extended hours and weekend work may be required to support critical project and mission milestones
Compensation and Benefits
Pay Range:
Level 1: $105,000 - $122,500
Level 2: $120,000 - $150,000
Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis based on job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.
Base salary is one part of your total rewards package. You may be eligible for long-term incentives in company stock or cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Benefits include comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, 3 weeks of paid vacation, and 10 or more paid holidays per year. Employees accrue paid sick leave per company policy.
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.