Senior Radiation Effects Engineer

21 hours ago


Merritt Island, Florida, United States Blue Origin Full time
About the Role

Blue Origin is seeking a highly skilled Senior Radiation Effects Engineer to join our team of experts in space systems. As a key member of our Enterprise Engineering team, you will provide technical leadership and expertise in radiation effects analysis and mitigation for our space systems.

Key Responsibilities
  • Define Mission Radiation Environments: Develop and apply knowledge of radiation environments to ensure the success of Blue Origin's space systems.
  • Develop Radiation Effects Requirements: Define and implement radiation effects requirements for system design and operation, part selection, and circuit design.
  • Write and Interpret Radiation Control Plans: Develop and interpret radiation control plans and requirements documents to ensure compliance with industry standards.
  • Simulate and Verify Circuit Performance: Use simulation tools to verify digital, analog, and mixed-signal circuit performance with considerations for radiation effects.
  • Recommend Mitigation Techniques: Recommend and simulate mitigation techniques for radiation-tolerant circuits to ensure system reliability.
  • Analyze Radiation Effects: Analyze the impacts of space radiation on system performance, including upset rates, testing requirements, radiation transport, and failure analysis.
  • Generate Radiation Effects Analysis Documentation: Develop thorough part-level, circuit-level, and system-level radiation effects analysis documentation.
  • Plan and Execute Radiation Effects Testing: Plan and guide the execution of radiation effects testing (TID, DDD, SEE) to ensure system reliability.
Requirements
  • Education: B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Nuclear Science, or related field with 7+ years of proven direct experience in design, analysis, and/or testing for radiation effects on electronics and materials.
  • Experience: Strong familiarity with basic and complex discrete and integrated circuits (transistors, logic, memories, microcontrollers, FPGAs, etc.) and excellent demonstrated understanding of the effects of radiation on electronics.
  • Skills: Demonstrated experience with the use of commercial or automotive parts in a radiation environment, electrical circuit analysis, and implementation of radiation effects mitigations.
  • Tools: Experience with standard radiation environment modeling tools (ex: IRENE, OMERE, SIRE2, SPENVIS, OLTARIS, CREME96, SAPPHIRE, ESP/PSYCHIC).
  • Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting radiation requirements, results, and plans at program design reviews.
  • Leadership: Ability to work with minimal oversight and lead teams to ensure successful project execution.
  • Benefits: Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Education: Graduate degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in related engineering or technical field with 7+ years of direct experience in radiation design, analysis, and testing of avionics hardware for operation in radiation environments.
  • Skills: Proficiency with Python, C, SVN, Gitlab, SQL, I2C, SPI, and experience leading technical projects from inception to completion.
  • Tools: Experience with radiation transport tools (ex: MCNP, NOVICE, FASTRAD, GEANT4) and familiarity with rad-tolerant and rad-hard offerings of space electronics providers.
  • Lab Skills: Basic electronics lab skills, including soldering, harnessing, and use of oscilloscopes, multimeters, and logic analyzers.


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