SpaceX Radiation Effects Engineer responsible for ensuring avionics hardware performance across SpaceX vehicles in harsh radiation environments. Performs analysis, design, and testing at multiple hardware levels to mitigate radiation effects.
Responsibilities
Support a cross-discipline team of design and system engineers in providing radiation test and analysis results, advice on requirements flow down, modeling and analysis reports, and recommendations for mitigating radiation effects
Develop component databases and applications for interfacing with radiation test data used across programs
Work with supply chain, component reliability and radiation engineering to ensure test data collected during radiation test campaigns is available and 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
Work with circuit design, electronics manufacturing, and software implementation to analyze and improve test coverage
Make recommendations for design, process improvements, and data collection
Establish requirements for component procurement specifications
Comply with all radiation regulatory requirements for radiation safety
Qualification
Bachelor's degree in electrical
Required
Bachelor's degree in electrical, materials, physics, or other engineering discipline
1+ years of professional experience in the radiation effects field (internships and project experience are applicable)
Preferred
Experience with full stack web development including python, SQL, JavaScript, html
Experience with single event effects risk calculations
Previous work experience in radiation effects including modeling, testing, and/or analysis
Experience in writing scripts to control test hardware
Proficiency with hardware blueprints/schematics and circuit functions based on designs
