Sr. Radiation Effects Engineer Verified today
Sr. Radiation Effects Engineer
Join SpaceX's Radiation Effects team to ensure avionics hardware performs across our fleet of vehicles (Dragon, Falcon, Starship, Lunar Human Landing System, and others) in extreme radiation environments. The Radiation team performs exhaustive analysis, design, and test at the component, board, unit, and subsystem levels. You will interact with a vast array of rocket and spacecraft hardware and electronics, working across design, manufacturing, integration, and mission operations teams.
Responsibilities
- Support design and system engineers with radiation test and analysis results, requirements flow down, modeling and analysis 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 from radiation campaigns is accessible 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
- Work with supply chain and component reliability teams to refine preferred components across programs
- Collaborate with circuit design, electronics manufacturing, and software implementation to analyze and improve test coverage
- Make recommendations for design improvements, process enhancements, and data collection
- Establish requirements for component procurement specifications
- Comply with all radiation regulatory requirements for radiation safety
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
- 5 or more years of professional experience in the radiation effects field
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Full stack web development including Python, SQL, JavaScript, HTML
- Single event effects risk calculations
- Radiation effects modeling, testing, and analysis
- Writing scripts to control test hardware
- Hardware blueprints, schematics, and circuit functions
- Component engineering or component reliability experience
- Strong mathematics and statistics knowledge
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Avionics hardware proficiency (integrated circuits, PCBA boards, sensors, transducers, functional troubleshooting, defect detection)
- Radiation dose safety training
Additional Requirements
- Extended hours and weekend work may be required to support critical project and mission milestones
Compensation
Base salary Level 3: $140,000 to $235,000 per year, determined on a case-by-case basis based on job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.
Total rewards include long-term incentives (company stock or long-term cash awards), potential discretionary bonuses, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, 3 weeks paid vacation, and 10 or more paid holidays per year. Employees in Washington State accrue paid sick time per state and federal law. Company shuttles offered Monday to Friday from select Seattle locations to Redmond office.
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, you 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.