Senior Radiation Effects Engineer - Avionics Reliability

Starlink; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Medical, vision, dental

Shuttle service

Job summary

SpaceX in Redmond is seeking a Sr. Radiation Effects Engineer to ensure avionics hardware reliability across our fleet of vehicles. This role involves cross-disciplinary collaboration, data development, and ensuring radiation qualification for critical components.

You will work with design, manufacturing, and mission ops teams to improve test coverage, define requirements, and support PCBA radiation testing. A engineering degree and 5+ years in radiation effects are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline is required.
• 5+ years of professional experience in the radiation effects field.

Responsibilities

• Support a cross-discipline team of design and system engineers in providing radiation test and analysis results, advice on requirements flow down, modeling and analysis reports, and recommendations for mitigating radiation effects
• Develop component databases and applications for interfacing with radiation test data used across programs
• Work with supply chain, component reliability and radiation engineering to ensure test data collected during radiation test campaigns is available and accessible to design engineers
• Review PCN changes to ensure maintenance of radiation qualification status
• Develop testing and reporting standards for component and flight PCBA radiation tests

Skills

Python

SQL

JavaScript

HTML

SEE calculations

Math & stats

Verbal communication

Avionics hardware

Component reliability

Schematic knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Scripting

Job description

SpaceX in Redmond is seeking a Sr. Radiation Effects Engineer to ensure avionics hardware reliability across our fleet of vehicles. This role involves cross-disciplinary collaboration, data development, and ensuring radiation qualification for critical components.

You will work with design, manufacturing, and mission ops teams to improve test coverage, define requirements, and support PCBA radiation testing. A engineering degree and 5+ years in radiation effects are required.