Radiation Test Engineer for Space Electronics

Cowboy Space Corp.; San Carlos (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement savings plan

Paid time off

10 paid holidays per calendar year

Paid parental leave

Relocation assistance

Lunch in the office

Job summary

Cowboy Space Corp. in San Carlos, CA seeks a hardware test engineer to build reusable radiation-test infrastructure and measurement systems for space electronics.

You will own a modular motherboard/daughterboard platform for heavy-ion testing, develop instrument control, data processing, and ensure repeatable results across campaigns. This role is onsite in San Carlos, CA or Kent, WA.

Qualifications

• A degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on experience testing electronic hardware under radiation, with an understanding of single-event effects and total ionizing dose.
• Experience designing, bringing up, and debugging PCB-based test hardware, including bias circuits, component interfaces, and electrical measurements.
• Ability to develop maintainable test automation and data-analysis software in Python or a comparable language.
• Practical experience with instruments such as source measure units, oscilloscopes, power supplies, and data-acquisition systems.
• Careful measurement and documentation habits: calibration, setup behavior, raw data preservation, anomaly investigation.

Responsibilities

• Develop reusable test electronics. Design/bring up motherboards and daughterboards for radiation testing; document interfaces for testing new devices.
• Build reliable test automation: instrument control, stimulus generation, data reduction, and configuration preservation.
• Own measurement quality: calibration, uncertainty, noise, timing, and test-system artifacts analysis.
• Prepare and execute radiation campaigns: readiness checks, beam access, facility coordination.
• Turn test runs into engineering evidence: test devices before/during/after exposure and deliver reproducible analyses and reports.
• Sustain the broader test capability: improve benches, data-acquisition tools, and procedures to ease repeatability.

Skills

Radiation testing

PCB test hardware

Python data-analysis

Instrument control

Calibration & documentation

C/C++ embedded

Education

Electrical engineering

Physics

Computer engineering

Tools

Oscilloscope

Source measure units

Data-acquisition systems

Instrument-control libraries

FPGA interfaces

Job description

Cowboy Space Corp. in San Carlos, CA seeks a hardware test engineer to build reusable radiation-test infrastructure and measurement systems for space electronics.

You will own a modular motherboard/daughterboard platform for heavy-ion testing, develop instrument control, data processing, and ensure repeatable results across campaigns. This role is onsite in San Carlos, CA or Kent, WA.