CesiumAstro
Senior Radiation Effects Engineer
Austin, TX · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum of 5 years of space product experience; direct experience performing many or all listed responsibilities.
- Education
- Bachelor of Science (BS) or higher degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or similar degree from an accredited university.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, conditional resident, asylee, or refugee (protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)), or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
About the job
Leads radiation hardness assurance for space products by analyzing radiation environments and risks, planning tests, advising engineering teams, and shaping product roadmaps.
What you'll do
- Own radiation hardness assurance activities, including orbit environment simulations, radiation testing, upset-rate prediction, and system-level risk analysis.
- Advise hardware, software, and firmware teams on component selection and radiation reliability; participate in design reviews.
- Support product radiation roadmaps, customer and executive reviews, proposals, and team development.
What they ask for
- Bachelor of Science (BS) or higher in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a similar degree from an accredited university.
- Direct experience working with automotive and high volume commercial grade parts in radiation environments.
- Good understanding of radiation physics relevant to electronic components.
- Excellent written and spoken communication ability.
Nice to have
- Experience with ray tracing tools such as FASTRAD.
- Experience with radiation susceptibility of RF components, SEE analysis and testing of complex digital devices, circuit theory, Python, or component test-data databases.
Tools
OMERE, FASTRAD, EDAC, watchdog timer, III-V transistors, GaAs, Gan, Python
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