Radiation Effects Engineer (Space)

Location: Redondo Beach, United States; onsite.

Salary: $120,000–$150,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global is an in-space transportation company developing spacecraft and vehicles for orbital transport, constellation deployment, precision reentry, and missions beyond Low Earth Orbit.

What you will do

• Lead total ionizing dose (TID) and single event effects (SEE) component characterization and qualification through testing and test-data analysis.
• Support off-site radiation testing by developing procedures and optimizing test time.
• Maintain radiation-test databases and work with supply chain and design engineers to select and procure components.
• Create radiation-reliability design standards, review circuit-board designs and BOMs, and ensure compliance.
• Represent radiation-related risks to program managers and engineering leadership.
• Perform or support ray-tracing shielding analysis of avionics enclosures and travel domestically for radiation-test campaigns as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, physics, or a related technical field.
• 2+ years of experience in radiation effects.
• Strong component-selection experience for digital, analog, power, and RF systems.
• Experience supporting proton and/or heavy-ion radiation-testing campaigns.
• Experience analyzing radiation-test data at the circuit, board, and vehicle levels.
• Experience integrating industrial and/or automotive-grade parts in radiation environments.

Nice to have

• 2+ years of experience with SEE risk calculations and the ability to write scripts for test-hardware control.
• Avionics hardware experience spanning flight computers, radios, and motor controllers; familiarity with Altium.
• Understanding of semiconductor manufacturing processes, orbital dynamics, and space systems.
• Strong statistical analysis skills and experience with electromagnetic effects, surface charging, system desense, or coexistence characterization.
• Familiarity with EEE-INST-002, NASA 8739.11, NASA-HDBK-4002, NASA-STD-4005, or similar standards.
• Experience with OMERE, FASTRAD, or similar orbital and radiation simulation tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with electrical, RF, EMC, mechanical, and test engineers on flight hardware for space missions.
• Onsite work in Redondo Beach.
• Occasional domestic travel to support radiation-testing campaigns.

Hiring process

• Application, resume review, and introductory phone interview.
• Technical phone interview(s), followed by an onsite interview.
• Offer after successful completion of the interview stages.