Radiation Effects Engineer

Apex Technology, Inc.•Los Angeles, CA

1d•$96,000 - $132,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Radiation Effects engineer, you will serve as one of the points of contact for all technical topics related to space environment qualification and design, and meet team members' needs, customer requirements, and company goals. In this role you will serve as a focal for spacecraft electronics radiation susceptibility with the responsibility of hardening reliable space systems. This position requires deep technical expertise in radiation effects testing and analysis.

Requirements

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Nuclear Engineering, or related field
2-5 years of experience in radiation effects and/or reliability engineering for aerospace systems
Expertise with radiation tools (e.g. AE9/AP9/SPM, CREME96, OMERE, SPENVIS) for environmental definition and requirements definition.
Familiarity with industry radiation standards (e.g. MIL-STD-750, MIL-STD-883, ECSS-Q-ST-60-15C, MIL-STD-3053 and NASA testing guidelines).
Experience with budgeting, scheduling and executing SEE, TID and DDD test campaigns, including test evaluation hardware/kit development and familiar with testing FPGAs and microprocessors.
Proficiency with data analysis and modeling software (Python, MATLAB, or equivalent).
Familiarity with circuit simulation tools (e.g. LTSpice) with experience in design and/or analysis of digital and analog circuits.
Strong lab experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, source meters, power supplies, and automating data collection.
Effective communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey radiation risks and mitigation to diverse stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

M.S. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Reliability Engineering, or related field
Hands-on experience with scripting, automation, and programming languages (Python, MATLAB, JMP, C/C++, SQL, etc.)
Familiarity with radiation transport and shielding analysis tools (FASTRAD)
Familiarity with space charging effects on materials and electronics
Experience with anomaly resolution and documentation of anomaly reports and lessons learned databases

Responsibilities

Enforcing the Radiation Hardness Assurance for our various buses, products and individual components.
Coordinating closely with all products designers to continually evolve, test, and maintain a radiation parts and materials library.
Providing radiation analysis capabilities to ensure spacecraft shielding and electronics design is adequate for compliance to harsh environments ranging from LEO to GEO.
Establishing and owning the radiation qualification campaigns for critical new generation electronics.
Operating radiation test equipment, including total dose sources and pulsed laser equipment.
Providing radiation tolerant recommendations to product designers to increase probability of mission success through part selection, circuit design, passive/active radiation mitigations and mission design recommendations.
Supporting business development and mission integration efforts by contributing to proposals, requirements development, customer briefings, and design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR) with radiation assessments.
Owning the budget, schedule, plan, and execution of radiation test campaigns at external facilities (protons, heavy ions, gamma, neutron) or through third-party partners for specific new technologies.
Providing unit and mission level radiation analyses including SEE rates, availability estimates, cumulative dose exposures and the associated artifacts for requirements verification.
Maintaining and growing the parts and materials library databases with critical piece-part and material information accessible to all designers.

Benefits

Receive equity in Apex
100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents
$100k life insurance at no cost
15 days vacation, growing to 20+ days annually
10 paid holidays
Competitive 401(k) plan with generous matching - 100% match on first 3%, 50% on next 2%
8 weeks paid parental leave
Childcare reimbursement up to $350/day for work-related travel
Daily catered lunch
Unlimited snacks
Monthly office socials
Pickleball tournaments
Run club
Gatherings for you and your family
Your dream desk setup
All the tools you need to be your most productive self
Stock options