Senior Space Radiation Resilience Engineer

Cowboy Space Corporation; San Carlos (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in Cowboy Space Corp.

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement savings plan

Paid time off

10 paid holidays per year

Paid parental leave

Relocation assistance

Daily lunch in the office

Job summary

Cowboy Space Corporation in San Carlos, CA is seeking a senior engineer to lead radiation effects analysis for orbital compute systems. You will address SEU, TID, and related radiation phenomena across GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs, and power electronics.

This role is onsite in San Carlos, CA or Kent, WA with significant cross-discipline collaboration. Located onsite, you will plan and execute radiation test campaigns, coordinate with external labs, and help define hardware architectures for a space-based

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on experience in radiation effects analysis, radiation testing, or space systems reliability engineering.
• Deep understanding of radiation interactions with semiconductor devices and electronic systems.
• Knowledge of Total Ionizing Dose (TID), Single Event Effects (SEE), and Displacement Damage (DDD).
• Experience planning and executing radiation characterization campaigns with external test facilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead radiation effects analysis and resilience strategy for orbital compute systems.
• Analyze radiation effects on GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs, networking ASICs, memory subsystems, and power electronics.
• Define architectural resilience strategies including ECC, redundancy, fault detection and recovery, and software-defined fault tolerance mechanisms.
• Plan and execute radiation test campaigns.
• Coordinate with external laboratories and test facilities to define test conditions, sample preparation, biasing configurations, and data collection methodologies.
• Analyze radiation test results and derive reliability metrics including cross-section analysis, FIT estimation, and mission reliability projections.
• Develop radiation hardness assurance (RHA) methodologies for compute platforms and high-density PCB systems.

Skills

Radiation effects analysis

Space systems reliability

High-performance compute hardware

Job description

Cowboy Space Corporation in San Carlos, CA is seeking a senior engineer to lead radiation effects analysis for orbital compute systems. You will address SEU, TID, and related radiation phenomena across GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs, and power electronics.

This role is onsite in San Carlos, CA or Kent, WA with significant cross-discipline collaboration. Located onsite, you will plan and execute radiation test campaigns, coordinate with external labs, and help define hardware architectures for a space-based