Senior Radiation Effects Engineer, Sunrise Payload

Blue Origin; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 144,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Stock options

Paid time off

401(k) match

Education support

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a Radiation Effects Engineer to lead the Radiation Hardness Assurance for the Sunrise compute payload. You will characterize the space radiation environment, define mitigation strategies, and guide test campaigns at accelerator facilities to ensure reliability of high‑performance COTS electronics in space.

You will collaborate across hardware, software, and EEE parts teams to embed radiation resilience into the system design and support flight-readiness decisions.

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 (TID, SEE, displacement damage) in advanced CMOS nodes.
• Hands-on experience qualifying COTS components for radiation tolerance.
• Experience using industry-standard radiation environment modeling tools.
• U.S. citizenship or eligible status.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute the Radiation Hardness Assurance (RHA) Plan for the entire compute payload.
• Characterize the orbital radiation environment using tools like CREME96, SPENVIS, or similar and translate models into test requirements.
• Define and own end-to-end radiation mitigation strategy with design margin policy and shielding decisions.
• Translate device-level SEEs into system-level impacts and work with systems engineers to bound effects.
• Plan, schedule, and execute radiation effects test campaigns at accelerator facilities with long-lead logistics.
• Maintain radiation risk register, test status, and analyses to inform design reviews and flight-readiness decisions.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, and EEE parts engineering teams to integrate mitigation strategies.

Skills

Radiation effects knowledge

COTS qualification experience

Test planning execution

Radiation environment modeling

Education

Bachelor of Science in Physics or Engineering

Master's or PhD preferred

Tools

CREME96

SPENVIS

Job description

Blue Origin seeks a Radiation Effects Engineer to lead the Radiation Hardness Assurance for the Sunrise compute payload. You will characterize the space radiation environment, define mitigation strategies, and guide test campaigns at accelerator facilities to ensure reliability of high‑performance COTS electronics in space.

You will collaborate across hardware, software, and EEE parts teams to embed radiation resilience into the system design and support flight-readiness decisions.