Lead Radiation Effects Engineer — Space Electronics

Entrada Ventures; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity incentives

Job summary

Kapta Space in Seattle, WA seeks a Lead Radiation Effects Engineer to lead radiation analysis, testing, and qualification across avionics and payload electronics. You will define the radiation environment, model system response, plan test campaigns, and support design decisions to ensure on-orbit hardware reliability.

The role requires hands-on experience with SEE, TID, and DD testing, development of analysis tools, and collaboration with multi-disciplinary engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Nuclear Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in radiation-effects engineering for high-reliability electronics.
• Experience with radiation environment software modeling tools (OMERE).
• Strong understanding of radiation effects, test methods, and test execution.
• Hands-on experience planning and executing radiation test campaigns.
• Experience developing analysis tools, automation, and internal data systems to support modeling, testing, and engineering workflows.
• Working knowledge of electrical schematics, including the ability to identify common components, understand basic signal flow, and locate relevant circuit information.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the radiation assurance strategy, defining philosophy, requirements, and decision framework for radiation testing, component selection, and radiation-tolerant design.
• Build radiation budgets, calculate margins, analyze mission environments, and assess system-level reliability.
• Plan and execute SEE, TID, and DD test campaigns at component and assembly levels.
• Analyze test results, identify vulnerabilities, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Create and manage internal tools and workflows for radiation analysis, component qualification, and validation of component selection.
• Monitor PCNs and assess their impact on radiation performance and qualification.
• Support reliability analysis related to radiation effects.
• Support failure analysis and on-orbit anomaly investigations.
• Drive improvements to internal standards for radiation modeling and verification.
• Domestic travel required; foreign travel possible.

Skills

Radiation-effects engineering

Test campaign planning

Data analysis automation

Electrical schematics understanding

Cross-disciplinary communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Nuclear Engineering, or related field

Tools

OMERE

Job description

Kapta Space in Seattle, WA seeks a Lead Radiation Effects Engineer to lead radiation analysis, testing, and qualification across avionics and payload electronics. You will define the radiation environment, model system response, plan test campaigns, and support design decisions to ensure on-orbit hardware reliability.

The role requires hands-on experience with SEE, TID, and DD testing, development of analysis tools, and collaboration with multi-disciplinary engineering teams.