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Sr. Radiation Effects Engineer

SpaceX· Radiation and Electromagnetic Effects
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Redmond, WA$140k - $235kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior role responsible for ensuring avionics hardware performance across SpaceX vehicle platforms through radiation analysis, testing, and design collaboration to improve reliability in harsh radiation environments.

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 an engineering discipline
  • 5+ years of professional experience in the radiation effects field

Skills

Required:Radiation effects analysisComponent/test data managementPCBA radiation testing and qualification
Nice to have:Full stack web developmentSingle event effects risk calculationsScripting for test hardwareHardware schematics and circuit understandingComponent reliabilityMathematics and statisticsCommunication skillsAvionics hardware expertiseRadiation dose safety training

Benefits

  • Long-term incentives (stock or long-term cash awards)
  • Discretionary bonuses
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • paid vacation (3 weeks)
  • 10+ paid holidays per year
  • paid sick time per Washington state law
  • company shuttles between Seattle locations and SpaceX Redmond office (Mon-Fri)
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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