Radiation Effects Engineer II

Team: Specialty Engineering

Location: Westminster, CO

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: onsite

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Perform radiation effects analyses for electronic components, integrated circuits, and electrical subsystems supporting products and platforms.
• Develop radiation assessments, component evaluations, shielding analyses, and worst-case analyses supporting radiation-tolerant hardware designs.
• Evaluate radiation environments, component performance, engineering data, and technical documentation while supporting radiation effects design decisions.
• Perform radiation testing, characterization, data reduction, and design validation activities supporting product qualification.
• Analyze total ionizing dose (TID), single event effects (SEE), displacement damage, laboratory measurements, and engineering data while resolving routine technical issues.
• Support design verification, root cause investigations, engineering changes, qualification testing, and product integration activities.
• Collaborate with electrical, hardware, FPGA, systems, software, mechanical, manufacturing, integration and test, quality, and program teams supporting radiation effects engineering activities.
• Develop radiation analyses, technical reports, test procedures, qualification documentation, and design review materials supporting engineering decisions.
• Participate in design reviews, technical discussions, hardware integration, and engineering investigations.
• Maintain radiation analysis documentation, test results, qualification records, and configuration-controlled technical data.
• Apply radiation analysis methodologies, engineering standards, customer requirements, and organizational procedures throughout product development.
• Develop improvements that enhance radiation tolerance, product reliability, and design quality.

JOB REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree with 2–5 years of related experience, or Master's degree with 0–3 years of related experience in electrical engineering, physics, nuclear engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related engineering field.
• Direct experience performing many or all of the responsibilities listed above.
• Direct experience working with automotive and high volume commercial grade parts in radiation environments.
• Good understanding of the radiation physics relevant to electronic components.
• Excellent written and spoken communication ability.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

Experience with ray tracing tools such as FASTRAD
Experience with radiation susceptibility of RF components including III-V transistors (GaAs, Gan)
Specialization of SEE analysis and test of complex digital devices such as FPGAs, processors, and memories (RAM and NVM)
Working knowledge of Electronic Circuit Theory.
Basic programming and scripting, such as Python.
Managing databases of component test data.