Avionics Radiation Effects Engineer

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Hawthorne, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an Electrical Engineer in Radiation Effects to ensure avionics hardware reliability across Dragon, Falcon, Starship, and lunar/mars programs. You will support radiation test data, develop databases, and work with design, manufacturing, and mission ops to improve test coverage and qualification status.

The role requires a Bachelor's in engineering and 1+ years in radiation effects, with familiarity in modeling, testing, and analysis.

Qualifications

• 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)

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

Skills

Single event effects

Radiation effects modeling

Scripting for test hardware

Schematic reading

Component reliability

Math & statistics

Communication skills

Avionics hardware knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Materials/Physics or Engineering

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an Electrical Engineer in Radiation Effects to ensure avionics hardware reliability across Dragon, Falcon, Starship, and lunar/mars programs. You will support radiation test data, develop databases, and work with design, manufacturing, and mission ops to improve test coverage and qualification status.

The role requires a Bachelor's in engineering and 1+ years in radiation effects, with familiarity in modeling, testing, and analysis.