Radiation Effects Engineer Hawthorne CA

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SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

RADIATION EFFECTS ENGINEER

As a member of our fast-paced Radiation Effects team you will be responsible for ensuring avionics hardware performance across our fleet of vehicles (Dragon Falcon Starship Lunar Human Landing System etc.) through some of the harshest and varied radiation environments order to ensure maximum reliability in an ionizing radiation environment the Radiation team at SpaceX performs exhaustive analysis design and test at the component board unit and subsystem levels with extensive opportunity to interact with a vast array of rocket and spacecraft hardware and electronics. As one of the few teams required to interface with the design manufacturing integration and mission operations teams we play a critical role in the development of our systems as we advance our efforts towards broadband satellite internet and safe reliable inexpensive and innovative access to space. This work all supports our fundamental goal of expanding human space exploration capabilities and establishing a permanent human presence on the moon and Mars.

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