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Radiation Effects Engineer

SpaceX· Radiation and Electromagnetic Effects
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Hawthorne, CA$105k - $150kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Radiation Effects Engineer responsible for ensuring avionics hardware performance across SpaceX vehicles in harsh radiation environments, performing analysis, design, and test at multiple levels and interfacing with design, manufacturing, integration, and mission operations teams.

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
  • Work with supply chain and component reliability teams to refine preferred components across programs
  • Work with circuit design, electronics manufacturing, and software implementation to analyze and improve test coverage
  • Make recommendations for design, process improvements, and data collection
  • Establish requirements for component procurement specifications
  • Comply with all radiation regulatory requirements for radiation safety

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical, materials, physics, or other engineering discipline
  • 1+ years of professional experience in the radiation effects field (internships and project experience are applicable)

Skills

Required:Radiation effects analysis
Nice to have:Full stack web developmentSingle event effects risk calculationsScripting for test hardwareHardware schematics and circuit functionComponent engineering / reliabilityMathematics and statisticsCommunication skillsAvionics hardware proficiencyRadiation safety training

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short and long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid vacation (3 weeks) and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • Ability to purchase additional stock through Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Discretionary bonuses and potential long-term incentives (stock or cash)
  • Various discounts and perks
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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