# Senior Radiation Test Engineer

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160,000-$215,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96372482

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## Description

As our Senior Radiation Test Engineer, you will be responsible for characterizing radiation environments for our missions and testing analysis for our spacecraft. This position requires hands-on experience validating parts for radiation environments specific to aerospace.

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Designing fault-tolerant electrical systems for operating in a radiation environment

- Simulating and modeling the GTO and GEO radiation environments

- Coordinating and running radiation testing campaigns to upscreen components

- Working with the structures team to determine the proper shielding levels across the spacecraft

- Integrating these systems into the spacecraft by working closely with the rest of the team

- Supporting other electrical design, bringup, and test activities

- Assisting in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team.

Requirements include:

- Bachelor of Science degree in nuclear engineering, electrical engineering, physics, or equivalent technical field

- A passion for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development

- Experience with the Geostationary radiation environment (TID, SEE, DDD)

- Experience with designing for and testing for radiation effects

- Experience in testing analog and digital circuits

- Experience with high reliability systems

- US Citizenship or Green Card

Bonus requirements include:

- Electromechanical design experience

- Experience running tests at radiation labs

- Experience with designing dosimeter circuits

- ECAD + MCAD Experience (Altium, Solidworks)

What we offer:

All our positions offer a compensation package that includes equity and robust benefits. Base pay is just one component of Astranis's total rewards package. Your compensation also includes a significant equity package via incentive stock options, high-quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance, 401(k) retirement planning, flexible PTO, and free on-site catered meals.

## Skills

### Required
- nuclear engineering
- electrical engineering
- physics
- hardware development
- radiation effects
- high reliability systems
- US Citizenship or Green Card

### Nice to have
- electromechanical design
- ECAD + MCAD Experience
- Altium
- Solidworks

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