Responsibilities

Build the hardware, automation, and measurement systems that let us understand how electronics behave under radiation. You will own reusable radiation test infrastructure, from circuit design and bench checkout through test execution and reproducible results.
Your initial focus will be a modular motherboard/daughterboard platform for heavy-ion testing of individual electronic components. You will develop the supporting instrument control, electrical characterization, event capture, and data processing needed to use that platform across different devices and campaigns.
This is a hands-on individual contributor role. You will work with radiation effects engineers to translate test objectives into validated setups, with avionics designers to reproduce relevant operating conditions, and with test facilities to execute campaigns. Your continuing responsibility will be to extend and maintain the test capability as new components and engineering questions emerge. This role is located onsite in San Carlos, CA or Kent, WA.
Develop reusable test electronics. Design and bring up motherboards, device-specific daughterboards, bias and protection circuits, fixtures, and interfaces for component radiation testing. Document the interfaces so new devices can be tested without rebuilding the entire setup.
Build reliable test automation. Develop software for instrument control, stimulus generation, electrical characterization, event logging, and data reduction. Make runs recoverable and preserve hardware, software, and instrument configurations alongside the measurements.
Own measurement quality. Establish calibration and verification procedures for the electrical measurement chain. Characterize uncertainty, repeatability, noise, timing, and event-detection limits so the team can distinguish device behavior from test-system artifacts.
Prepare and execute radiation campaigns. Develop procedures, perform readiness checks, and operate test setups for heavy-ion and other component radiation tests. Coordinate sample preparation, beam access, and facility interfaces with the relevant specialists.
Make exposure and response data traceable. Confirm required beam and dosimetry information with facility staff, record exposure conditions and device operating states, and correlate those records with electrical measurements and observed events.
Turn test runs into engineering evidence. Characterize devices before, during, and after exposure as required; investigate unexpected results; and deliver reproducible analysis, clear reports, and documented limitations for review with radiation effects and component engineers.
Sustain the broader test capability. Improve related characterization benches, data-acquisition tools, fixtures, documentation, and checkout procedures. Use lessons from each campaign to reduce setup errors and make future testing easier to repeat.

Senior Radiation Effects & Resilience Engineer at Cowboyspace · LumiJobs

Senior Radiation Effects & Resilience Engineer

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Cowboyspace

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