Bastion Technologies, Inc. · 13 hours ago
Avionics Radiation Hardness Assurance Engineer
Houston, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Entry Level
1+ years expBastion Technologies, Inc. is seeking an Avionics Radiation Hardness Assurance Engineer to support their space program located in Houston, TX. The role involves collaborating with engineers to ensure the reliability of electronic hardware in space applications, while also tailoring radiation hardness assurance requirements based on specific mission factors.
Industrial EngineeringManufacturingSpace Travel
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Report directly to the Electronics and Electrical Section Manager as part of group of over 45 other Electronics and Electrical Engineers
Be familiar with systems engineering and integration (S&EI) and/or specialty engineering for NASA spaceflight (or similar complexity)
Support new projects and sustaining efforts throughout product life cycle, including: standards adjudications, system requirements reviews, preliminary design reviews, critical design reviews, manufacturing readiness reviews, flight readiness reviews, and failure investigations, as well as testing, analysis, inspection, sustaining support efforts
Drive critical decision-making processes for performing radiation testing, deriving part performance classification and taxonomy, and improving vehicle and subsystem level radiation reliability and survivability
Tailor Radiation Hardness Assurance (RHA) requirements based upon mission, environment, application, and lifetime (MEAL) factors as well as program/project risk posture
Bound stochastic and deterministic electronics failure modes induced by natural space radiation environment
Write verification test plans, test procedures, and test reports against product requirement
Ability to read and understand schematics for circuit and system diagrams to evaluate upstream and downstream impacts for transient analysis
Collaborate with design engineers, project personnel, and other stakeholders to evaluate performance of electronic hardware and assess need to address impacts to functional, performance, reliability, and availability metrics
Support program activities on behalf of subject matter experts (SMEs) by assessing relevance information with technical discussions to determine need to request SME consideration, and then accurately conveying SME assessments back to program and project stakeholders
Make recommendations for design, process improvements, and data collection
Perform root-cause analysis of test failures and communicate recommended actions
Present test results and data analyses to team members, project engineers, program managers, systems engineers, formal boards/panels, and more
Ability to adapt in the face technical hurdles and overcome challenges associated with increasing use of industrial-grade and automotive-grade components in space applications
Familiarity with Poisson, Markov, and/or Gaussian statistical analysis
Willingness to work in a technically challenging field
Comply with all radiation regulatory requirements for radiation safety
Other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
This position requires US Citizenship or Permanent Resident status due to the sensitivity of customer related information
Must have a bachelor's degree in the field of engineering
Must have 1+ years of recent and related work experience as a Test Engineer or Lab Scientist
Be familiar with the subject matter expertise (SME) and/or specialty engineering field in radiation effects in microelectronics for NASA spaceflight (or similar complexity)
Work directly with technicians, engineers, managers, and other stakeholders on a wide variety of Projects
Possess technical knowledge of radiation effects in microelectronics and avionics systems, may include: basic mechanisms for single-event effects and total dose, test strategies, mitigation techniques, and analysis of circuits, systems, and data links
Be familiar with the suite of activities known as Radiation Hardness Assurance (RHA) for avionics (analog, digital, power, etc.): determining Mission, Environment, Application, and Lifetime (MEAL) factors, developing and interpreting requirements, bill-of-materials requirement gap analysis, radiation testing, environment definition, radiation transport, shielding analysis, dose-depth curves, Single-Event Effects Criticality Analysis (SEECA), derating, Safe Operating Area (SOA), Radiation Design Margin (RDM), etc
Assess EEE parts, circuits, functions, components, subsystems, and systems to evaluate risks, effectiveness of mitigation strategies, and the ability to meet functional, performance, and reliability requirements during and after exposure to the mission ionizing radiation environment
Lead or support screening and characterization test efforts for heavy ion, proton, and pulsed-laser Single-Event Effects (SEE), Total Ionizing Dose (TID), Enhanced Low-Dose Rate Sensitivity (ELDRS), Total Non-Ionizing Dose (TNID), Displacement Damage Dose (DDD), etc
Create detailed radiation assessments, presentations, test plans, analyses, and reports
Design, troubleshoot, and repair new and existing radiation test setups, may include: cables, laboratory test equipment, printed circuit boards, software, firmware, hardware description languages, etc
Preferred
Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering/ Materials Engineering / Aerospace Engineering/ Nuclear Engineering/ Physics in related radiation area from an accredited engineering school
Experience with test hardware such as oscilloscopes, multi-meters, logic analyzers, function generators, electronic load banks, power supplies, power analyzers
Familiar with systems engineering and integration (S&EI) and/or specialty engineering for NASA spaceflight (or similar complexity)
Prior experience in design and testing analog instrumentation systems
Project based experience designing, building, testing, and troubleshooting power distribution electronics, battery systems, and other electrical hardware (requirements definition; system modeling and simulation; circuit analysis; PCB design, fabrication; requirements verification)
Excellent fabrication, and assembly; harness fabrication; requirements verification
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team of mechanical, electrical, and software engineers designing and building world-class, NASA spaceflight hardware
Prior experience in design and test of power supply and conditioning systems
Benefits
Medical
Prescription
Dental
Vision
AD&D
Disability benefits
Life insurance
Retirement 401k
Vacation
Sick pay
Holidays
Flexible work schedules (when available)
Professional training and development
Company
Bastion Technologies, Inc.
A multi-disciplined engineering and technical services company headquartered in Houston, Texas.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Jayant Ramakrishnan
Chief Operating Officer
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