Radiation Engineer, Spacecraft & Payloads – End-to-End RHA

Blue Origin; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 157,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation provided

Travel up to 15%

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a Radiation Engineer to own end-to-end radiation hardness assurance for the TeraWave program. You will define environments, margins, and requirements for LEO/MEO spacecraft, and guide mitigation with design teams to ensure mission success.

You will evaluate parts data, perform analyses, and maintain risk traceability while coordinating with EEE parts and solar/EPS teams to manage radiation risk across the system.

Qualifications

• B.S. in electrical engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years in spacecraft radiation effects, RHA, radiation testing, or related field.
• Demonstrated knowledge of TID and SEE mechanisms, radiation environment modeling, shielding, and design mitigation.
• Experience interpreting radiation test data and applying it to parts, lots, operating conditions, and missions.
• Ability to derive and communicate radiation requirements, margins, uncertainties, and residual risk across disciplines.
• Ability to plan and execute work with radiation test facilities and part suppliers.
• U.S. citizen or eligible to work in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the TeraWave RHA Plan for LEO and MEO spacecraft, payloads, avionics, EPS, propulsion, sensors, optical devices, and solar-array technologies.
• Define and control external and internal radiation environments over the mission lifetime, including TID, SEE, and other effects.
• Translate mission needs into system and subsystem radiation requirements.
• Establish radiation design margin policy with documented rationale.
• Perform shielding, dose-depth, ray-tracing analyses and coordinate with mechanical teams.
• Evaluate EEE parts and optoelectronics for SEE and TID and select mitigations.
• Calculate mission SEE rates and translate to system-level effects.
• Collaborate with EEE Parts Engineering on BOM screening and supplier controls.
• Support radiation mitigation with design teams on substitutions, shielding, and operating constraints.
• Maintain radiation risk register and traceability from evidence to design decisions.
• Monitor new data and advise on radiation impacts for new technologies.

Skills

Radiation effects

SEE mechanisms

TID modeling

Radiation environments

Cross-disciplinary comms

Education

B.S. in EE/related

M.S./Ph.D. in radiation effects or related

Tools

Radiation test facilities

BOM screening

Job description

Blue Origin seeks a Radiation Engineer to own end-to-end radiation hardness assurance for the TeraWave program. You will define environments, margins, and requirements for LEO/MEO spacecraft, and guide mitigation with design teams to ensure mission success.

You will evaluate parts data, perform analyses, and maintain risk traceability while coordinating with EEE parts and solar/EPS teams to manage radiation risk across the system.