Radiation Hardness Lead for Space Compute Payload

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 157,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

Paid parental leave

Short and long-term disability

401(k) with company match

Education Support Program

Stock Options

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a Radiation Effects Engineer to lead the RHA program for the complete compute payload aboard Sunrise. You will characterize the orbital radiation environment, define mitigation strategies, and drive tests at accelerator facilities to ensure reliability of advanced space hardware.

You will collaborate with hardware, software, and EEE parts engineering teams, translate SEE effects to system-level impacts, and maintain risk and test status to inform design reviews and flight

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years of professional experience as a Radiation Effects Engineer for space applications.
• Deep understanding of radiation effects, including TID, SEE, and displacement damage, particularly in advanced CMOS nodes.
• Hands-on experience qualifying Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components for radiation tolerance.
• Experience using industry-standard radiation environment modeling tools.
• U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or legally admitted into the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute the Radiation Hardness Assurance (RHA) Plan for the entire compute payload.
• Characterize the mission's orbital radiation environment using tools like CREME96, SPENVIS, or other approaches and translate those models into component-level test requirements.
• Define and own the end-to-end radiation mitigation strategy, establishing a design margin policy and working with designers on part selection, shielding, and fault tolerance schemes.
• Translate device-level SEEs into system-level impacts such as data corruption, reset rates, or degraded performance, and work with systems engineers to bound their effect.
• Plan, schedule, and execute radiation effects test campaigns at accelerator facilities, managing the long-lead logistics required for beam time.
• Maintain the radiation risk register, part-by-part test status, and all supporting analyses to inform design reviews and flight-readiness decisions.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, and EEE parts engineering teams to ensure mitigation strategies are seamlessly integrated into the system design.

Skills

Radiation effects

CMOS radiation

COTS qualification

Radiation modeling tools

Test campaign planning

Systems thinking

Education

Bachelor of Science in Physics or Engineering

Master's or Ph.D. in a relevant discipline

Tools

CREME96

SPENVIS

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a Radiation Effects Engineer to lead the RHA program for the complete compute payload aboard Sunrise. You will characterize the orbital radiation environment, define mitigation strategies, and drive tests at accelerator facilities to ensure reliability of advanced space hardware.

You will collaborate with hardware, software, and EEE parts engineering teams, translate SEE effects to system-level impacts, and maintain risk and test status to inform design reviews and flight