# Senior Radiation Effects Engineer

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160,000-$235,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/astranis/jobs/4580221006
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## Description

As our Senior Radiation Effects 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:

- 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:

- 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
- designing fault-tolerant electrical systems
- simulating and modeling the GTO and GEO radiation environments
- coordinating and running radiation testing campaigns
- working with the structures team
- integrating systems into the spacecraft
- supporting electrical design, bringup, and test activities
- recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates

### Nice to have
- electromechanical design experience
- running tests at radiation labs
- designing dosimeter circuits
- ECAD + MCAD Experience (Altium, Solidworks)