Radiation Effects Engineer - Space Electronics Hardening

Telemetry Today LLC; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in Apex

Comprehensive healthcare

PTO 15–20 days + holidays

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Lunch provided

Office events

Job summary

Apex Technology, Inc. is seeking a Radiation Effects Engineer to lead space environment qualification and design for spacecraft electronics. You will harden systems, manage campaigns, and coordinate with designers to ensure radiation resilience from LEO to GEO.

Strong background in radiation testing, SEE/TID/DDD campaigns, and data analysis with Python/MATLAB is required. Preference for MS/PhD and hands-on scripting; located at Playa Vista, CA with opportunities for collaboration and growth.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Nuclear Engineering, or related field.
• 2-5 years of experience in radiation effects and/or reliability engineering for aerospace systems.
• Expertise with radiation tools (AE9/AP9/SPM, CREME96, OMERE, SPENVIS) for environmental definition and requirements definition.
• Familiarity with industry radiation standards (MIL-STD-750, MIL-STD-883, ECSS-Q-ST-60-15C, MIL-STD-3053 and NASA testing guidelines).
• Experience budgeting, scheduling and executing SEE, TID and DDD test campaigns, including hardware/kit development.

Responsibilities

• Enforce Radiation Hardness Assurance for buses, products and components.
• Coordinate with product designers to evolve, test and maintain a radiation parts library.
• Provide radiation analysis to ensure shielding and electronics meet harsh environment requirements from LEO to GEO.
• Own radiation qualification campaigns for critical new generation electronics.
• Operate radiation test equipment including total dose sources and pulsed laser equipment.
• Offer radiation tolerant design recommendations to improve mission success.
• Support proposals, customer briefings and design reviews with radiation assessments.
• Manage budgets, schedules and execution of test campaigns with external facilities or partners.
• Produce unit and mission level radiation analyses and artifacts for verification.
• Maintain parts and materials library databases accessible to designers.

Skills

Radiation effects

Python

MATLAB

LTSpice

data analysis

communication

Education

B.S. in Electrical Engineering

B.S. in Physics

B.S. in Nuclear Engineering

M.S./Ph.D. preferred

Tools

AE9/AP9/SPM

CREME96

OMERE

SPENVIS

FASTRAD

Job description

Apex Technology, Inc. is seeking a Radiation Effects Engineer to lead space environment qualification and design for spacecraft electronics. You will harden systems, manage campaigns, and coordinate with designers to ensure radiation resilience from LEO to GEO.

Strong background in radiation testing, SEE/TID/DDD campaigns, and data analysis with Python/MATLAB is required. Preference for MS/PhD and hands-on scripting; located at Playa Vista, CA with opportunities for collaboration and growth.